Article Photos: No pigeons, planes, pingpong balls at China meet



  A security officer urges people to line up for security check inside a tunnel leading to Tiananmen Square in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, and some of the measures seem bizarre. Most of the security measures were implemented in time for Thursday's opening of a meeting of the Central Committee. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A security officer urges people to line up for security check inside a tunnel leading to Tiananmen Square in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, and some of the measures seem bizarre. Most of the security measures were implemented in time for Thursday's opening of a meeting of the Central Committee. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)