Training session at a pole dancing school in Hefei.

Dance students practise during a training session at a pole dancing school in Hefei,
Anhui province, June 24, 2008. The dance school, which opened 2 months ago, is
the first in Hefei to introduce pole dancing. Increasing in popularity, students, mostly
women, sign up for the daily training for a variety of reasons such as to get fit, receive
training to be a pole dancing coach and to work in night clubs. Pole dancing is billed as
a serious workout, closely aligned with gymnastics.