I know that the human being and fish can coexist peacefully...

what? there are still people who ACTUALLY read People's Daily?

Obviously not that many Internet users: it did take a week for this to get noticed.

it is funny.^_^

Since Lao Zhang, that is me, comes from Nanning, the venue or site in question, he has something to say.
1. Guangxi is not a province, it is an autonomous region. If you think it is fine, don't be so hair-splitting, then you can call United States United Nations, because in English or in Chinese state means nation...
2.The photo shows a number of pigeons, which you may find it surprising. But the fact is there are really many pigeons there in the Minzu Square, which is the place where the picture was taken.
Thank you and welcome to Nanning!

since when people's daily transform itself from big lair into creepy and pathetic. Here we come, NK

What's the point of adding pegions? I'm at a loss.

Thanks, Lao Zhang. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that line.

1. Seeing someone lie about something as trivial as the number of pigeons is like readings news in LA that a teenage boy got shot dead for his new sneakers. It's not just the crime, it's the shocking sense of proportion.

2. Does careless and unnecessary lying like this indicate the deep permeation of corruption into all walks of Chinese society, as some have claimed? For sure in this instance it's a party media outlet, but put alongside widespread plagiarism, transcript doctoring, ethnicity faking......

3. Or does it indicate that the Party cadre's control freak personality is manifest in lowly functionaries like the CD journalist here?

"I hope to see fewer and fewer of these kinds of errors!" -

That is not an error, it is a deliberate manipulation of reality, done by sick minds who have grown so used to twisting the truth that they've lost any notion of journalistic ethics.

That, or else some young editor in the PD was trying to make fun of the company.

"I hope to see fewer and fewer of these kinds of errors!" -
"That is not an error, it is a deliberate manipulation of reality, done by sick minds who have grown so used to twisting the truth that they've lost any notion of journalistic ethics."

Wow can't take a joke?

They really still use terms like "the glorious image of party newspapers"?

C'mon, China! There are so many of us rooting for you guys to drop the tired old silly phrase-ology and modernize. Support the party if you will, but lighten up some, will you?

The spotter failed to spot, that the purple and dark blue ones are the same clones..

Apart from the clones, the topmost pigeon on the right and the third pigeon from the left in the foreground have also been dropped in by a Photoshop jock of negligible talent.

Yes! We hope to see fewer of these errors! Make sure the next photoshop job is completely undetectable!

"1. Seeing someone lie about something as trivial as the number of pigeons is like readings news in LA that a teenage boy got shot dead for his new sneakers. It's not just the crime, it's the shocking sense of proportion.

2. Does careless and unnecessary lying like this indicate the deep permeation of corruption into all walks of Chinese society, as some have claimed? For sure in this instance it's a party media outlet, but put alongside widespread plagiarism, transcript doctoring, ethnicity faking......

3. Or does it indicate that the Party cadre's control freak personality is manifest in lowly functionaries like the CD journalist here?"

Couldn't it just be that some photo journalist is a beginner PS student, and saw an opportunity to fill out the picture for a nicer composition? Does it have to be some deep rooted conspiracy to falsify facts regarding... the bird population? Really? Seems like that wouldn't serve much of a purpose... But I think you're right. They're all out to get us.

I read the 'People's Daily' just because it still carries 'Family Circus' on the comics pages.

In all liklihood, the pigeons cover garbage and litter as "people and nature coexist in harmony"

That, or dead bodies.

Yeah, anybody really believe that the fat big pidgeon in the upper-right part of the lawn really belongs there? Somebody surely forgot about perspective and such.

What about the caption? "people and nature?" Since when is a city park a real piece of nature?