Mall manager Yang Hongjun speaks in front of cars parked in pink marked out spaces during an interview in front of the Dashijiedaduhui, or World Metropolis centre, in the seaport city of Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province. The parking spaces outside a Chinese shopping mall are distinctive: marked out in pink, around 30 centimetres wider than normal, and signposted "Respectfully reserved for women".

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