Even though it's the first day of China’s three-day Labor Day holiday, workers from east China’s Huai’an city didn’t stop working. Several were busy taking down the large chimney that is 180 meters in the air. /VCG Photo

The chimney was part of a coal-fired power station which has since been shut down as part of China's energy conservation and emission reduction policies for the electric power industry. /VCG Photo

The chimney cannot be blasted directly due to the status of the facilities on the ground, so the workers need to remove 120 meters of wall with their bare hands. /VCG Photo

Due to the difficulties of getting up and down, the workers climbed up early in the morning, ate up in the air at noon and stayed there well into the night. /VCG Photo