Two women select New Year decorations at a wholesale market in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province on January 5, 2009. Chinese people are busy buying "New Year necessities" - special purchases for the Spring Festival -- and decorations in preparations for get-togethers during the traditional Chinese festival, which starts on January 26 this year according to Chinese lunar calendar. [Xinhua]

A mother and child select New Year decorations at a market in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province on January 5, 2009. Chinese people are busy buying "New Year necessities" - special purchases for the Spring Festival - and decorations in preparations for get-togethers during the traditional Chinese festival, which starts on January 26 this year according to Chinese lunar calendar. [Xinhua]