It is a cliché to say a picture is worth a thousand words, but at the same time, there is some truth in that old nugget.

On average we’ve run about 15 photos in each issue of Week in China, so over 500 issues we’ve featured around 7,500 of them. To mark the milestone of reaching our 500th edition (a few weeks ago) we pored through the images and selected some of the most striking ones. Here we have chosen our favourite 60 photos.

Click here to go to our website and download 500 Issues: in Photos.

Steven Irvine, Editor

Week in China is taking its annual summer break. The next standard issue of WiC will be on August 21.