Stretching 25 meters along a wall in Beijing’s Tuanjiehu neighborhood since earlier this month is a painting of a dragon, the sixth and biggest in artist Qi Xinghua’s plan to paint a hundred dragons on walls in China and across the world.

"The dragon represents the spirit of China. And we Chinese are to be considered the descendants of the dragon,” said Mr. Qi, who describes himself as China’s first 3D artist and who spent a full day painting his dragon in Tuanjiehu recently.

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