Gallery: Wet and wild images from Shanghai's National Day celebration

The weather may have cooperated in Beijing at the expense of Shanghai. Crowds still came out to celebrate the PRC's 60th birthday on Nanjing Dong Lu

By Jessica Beaton, Shanghai Editor 1 October, 2009

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Lucky lion in People's Square Park.

lion People's Square Shanghai National Day celebration 2009

Shanghai can't help but bring out its own celebration -- the 2010 World Expo -- on National Day.

Posing at the end of Nanjing Dong Lu walking street with National Day spirit.

Nanjing Dong Lu Shanghai National Day celebration 2009

Crowds still came out, umbrellas in hand, to celebrate China's 60th birthday.

rain Shanghai National Day celebration 2009

Jokers and laymen alike celebrated.

Shanghai's National Day celebration 2009

Nothing dampened volunteers' enthusiasm, not even the wet weather.

volunteers Shanghai's National Day celebration 2009

Can he make those balloons into a birthday cake?

clown balloons Shanghai's National Day celebration 2009

Not even Snow White could stay away from the party in People's Square.

Snow White Shanghai's National Day celebration 2009

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Click above for our gallery of images from Shanghai's damp celebration of China's 60th Anniversary. The crowds came out to Nanjing Dong Lu and People's Square for festivities, and to watch Beijing's parade on the JumboTron.

Click here for images from Beijing's National Day Parade.

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