A half-naked participant wears a gas mask as he takes part in the second "Guangzhu (naked) Run" on a winter morning at the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, February 24, 2014.
Over the past decade China saw rapid economic expansion. But its growth model and controversial politics have not come without their fair share of problems.
Rising property prices, rising food prices, restrictions on investment, an emphasis on speed over safety, and lax environmental standards have led to some truly unique and sometimes crazy situations in China.
Rich people build mountain villas on top of apartment buildings, local governments incentivize burials at sea, and people are pour their money into everything from walnuts to cockroach farms.
Businesses hang nets to prevent employees from committing suicide.
Foxconn installed nets outside its worker dormitories and hired mental health professionals to prevent suicides.
Firefighters are on hand to prevent self-immolations.
Immolations are a very popular form of protest. Before and during the leadership transition in 2012, Beijing positioned firefighters in Tiananmen Square to prevent self-immolations.
A national pork reserve exists to combat inflation.
China has replaced the U.S. to become the world's largest consumer of pork. The country has a national pork reserve that it releases when prices soar.
A tourism law is created that tells Chinese tourists to "behave."
China passed the "Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China" that seeks to protect the rights of both tourists and tour operators. But it also has a section asking tourists to "behave" after some incidents emerged that embarrassed the government.
Grave robbers steal and sell corpses for "ghost marriages."
"Ghost marriages" have traditionally been arranged for young men who died before they could wed. But four men decided to sell 10 corpses without the consent of any of the families and pocketed 240,000 yuan ($39,000).
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