Work as a volunteer has taken Lu Zhonghong, 45, to almost every major disaster site in China during recent years. After the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, he stayed in the devastated area for two months helping the locals rebuild their houses.
When Zhou Wan was recruited by the foreign affairs department of a well-known middle school in Chongqing, her parents were thrilled. After all, the job was a great start in the working life of the recent graduate of Sichuan International Studies University.
On an October morning, Huang Jianfeng, 34, drove down a rugged dirt road. He was on patrol along the border with Myanmar in Yunnan province.
Every year, Gao Yaowang, who is in charge of permanent residence registration in Dulongjiang, has to check on the 4,356 residents to ensure that no one fails to receive their government subsidy.
Zhu Zhansong was delighted to be given a cellphone and a computer by Zhao Yong, a soldier who recently left Dulongjiang Frontier Police Station after four years' service.
At midnight late on a November day, Feng Shilan, a 66-year-old woman with leukemia, sank into a coma. Although an ambulance was summoned immediately, the next five hours saw the elderly lady crisscrossing Beijing as paramedics desperately hunted for a hospital that could admit her.
Dr. Xiao Feng, an emergency room physician in the Departments of Emergency Medicine at Beijing United Family Hospital and the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Maryland in the US, talks about how the system functions to meet the needs of pre-hospital patients and communities.
Liang Feng'en is a wildlife ranger at the Suiyang Forestry Bureau in southeast Heilongjiang province.
As she accompanied a group of friends on a trip to the cinema in Shanghai, Zhong Qiu found herself unable to provide a convincing answer to a question posed by one of her fellow students, a girl from overseas: "It's natural for us to watch movies in English, but why aren't more international films dubbed into Chinese so people can watch them in their mother tongue?"
Even as prospects for China's film-dubbing industry look bleak, experts believe the wider picture has been overlooked.
As dusk fell in Xiongdang village, deep in the shade of the Gaoligong Mountains in northwest Yunnan province, Li Songying's relatives and friends gathered around a fire pit fenced with bricks to protect the small, wooden house. The slices of pickled pork suspended above the flames swayed in the warm air and a chicken boiled slowly in a pot of rice wine, diffusing an appetizing smell.
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