An employee refuels a vehicle as the new price is shown on the screen at a gas station in Anqing, east China's Anhui Province, early Thursday morning. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced Wednesday that the prices of gasoline, diesel oil and aviation kerosene would be raised by 500 yuan ($68) per ton.

Cars line up in front of a gas station in Beijing Wednesday night, a day before the fuel price rises came into effect.

(China Daily November 1, 2007)