Amid the burble and gentle hum of the engine, at 7 am Captain Zhang Xinghua sets off in his riverboat on another daily voyage to clean the Yangtze River as it flows through the county of Wushan in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
The recent enforcement of a two-day weekend break policy for high school students in China has sparked widespread debate, and a mix of reactions including relief, anxiety and resistance among students, teachers and parents.
"We entrust our children to you, and we are at ease." This is a line a parent from a remote area of Xinjiang once said to Aikeremu Aierken during a home visit. The words have stayed with him to this day.
On May 15, 2024, a family gathered at the palliative care ward of Gulou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing to take a cherished family photo.
Imagine watching a painter bring your late family members to life on canvas — standing beside you at your wedding ceremony. That's where wedding painters make a difference, turning fleeting moments into lasting emotional memories.
The Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF) had a total income and expenditure of 1.285 billion yuan (about $176.22 million) in 2024, including 334 million yuan from the central special lottery public welfare fund, according to its annual report. By the end of 2024, the foundation's total assets had reached 1.045 billion yuan.
Zhang Guangrui, a 40-year-old volunteer with the Blue Sky Rescue Team from northern China, put on his sunglasses to hide his tears on the streets of Mandalay in Myanmar on Thursday afternoon.
With the industry scale of China's low-altitude economy expected to reach over $275 billion by 2030, schools and training centers are being established across the country to meet the professional skills needed.
Like many fandoms, the ACG community has its own set of jargon, such as guzi, a homophone of "goods" meaning grain in Chinese, and baji, a homophone of "badge".
This frustration was a big contrast to her experience at the gym, where "there was an aura of positivity from everyone, and my health was evidently improved", she said."I have moved my mom to live with me in Hangzhou and her health condition has been good since I took her to work out with me," she said.
A 57-year-old United States woman known online as "Mary Jo", has quickly gained 105,000 followers on the increasingly popular Chinese lifestyle-sharing platform RedNote.
On the wall of Zhong Danzhu's clinic in Chengdu, Sichuan province, hangs a silk banner presented by Petru Lucinschi, former president of Moldova, inscribed with the words "Eastern Divine Doctor".
The 3-year-old German Shepherd serves as a tracker dog at the Jiangxia district sub-bureau of the city's public security department.
Huang Xinsheng starts every day early. By the time the sun peaks over the horizon, she is already cleaning a 1-kilometer street in Changsha, Hunan province.
The history of plant classification can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and is regarded as the foundation of botany.
Born in 1999 in another village in Yichun, Hu is the sole medical provider serving Tongmu.