Civilian version of escort motorcycle to hit market in 2015(1/3)

Visitors are attracted by an escort motorcycle shown at a plant of the vehicle’s manufacture in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on Thursday, October 23, 2014. The producer announced it would launch a civilian version of the motorcycle in 2015. China on Tuesday resumed motorcycle escorts for visiting foreign leaders, including them in the motorcade of Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as he travelled from the airport to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in central Beijing. The country had conducted motorcycle escorts since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, but stopped the practice on Jan. 1, 2004. [Photo: China News Service/ Li Chenyun]