A picturesque photo of sunflowers is taken on August 7 in Linhe district, Bayannur, in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The city of Bayannur has planted 3.72 million mu (248,000 hectares) of sunflowers in 2014, accounting for 36.4 percent of the city's total agricultural plantation area, while its total sunflower output accounted for 40 percent of the national total volume in 2013, amounting to 800 million kilograms. [Photo by Wang Jing/Xinhua]