Ren Yanqiu, 25, is a drywall finisher in a construction team. He hails from Yueyang in Hunan province.
"It is nothing new for the younger generation of migrant workers, especially those from third- or forth-tier cities or counties, to use smartphones for everyday activities. Their phones are usually top brands and of high quality.
They are not just talking shop. When business people speak about what they expect from an upcoming political event, they express not only what they want, but also, given the right conditions, what they think they can do.
Yang Bingyang is a busy woman. Her roles include Internet sensation, magazine columnist, author and television host. She also owns an online cosmetics shop. The 28-year-old Sichuan native is highly protective of her public image and seldom leaves home without applying makeup and often carries false eyelashes in case she's asked to pose for press photographers unexpectedly.
For 30 years, potato farmer Zhang Lian plowed his fields during the day and wrote poetry at night. In the harsh environment of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, writing was his only hope and provided a source of spiritual solace, said the 45-year-old.
Zhang Xianliang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in 1936. At the age of 19, he moved to the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and began to write. In 1957, he was sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp after publishing a poem critical of the authorities.
The decade since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2002 has been an extraordinary period of growth. The world is undergoing extensive and profound changes, and the country is also going through a wide-ranging and deep transformation.
Living in a poverty-stricken village in Xiji county in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Yuan Zhixue, a 36-year-old farmer who dropped out of high school, wrote a novel describing the huge changes that have taken place in his life since 2002.
If the hamburger you bought at McDonald's was too spicy for your taste, what would you do? Try to quell the spice to make it more digestible or call the police for help?
On an early October morning in the Luoxiao Mountains of Central China's Hunan province, the world was barely awake as Li Feng made his way through the clinging mists that blanketed the slopes and headed for the summit, a camera hidden in his pocket.
Zhang Houyi, 71, the former leader of a bird-hunting team in Yueyang city, described the early decades of his life as a time of "playing against nature". He grew up near Dongting Lake, where a large number of migratory birds spend their winter.
In 1981, China and Japan signed an agreement to protect migratory birds and their habitats. According to the treaty, both countries prohibit any sale, purchase or exchange of migratory birds or their eggs. However, both are allowed to establish seasons for hunting migratory birds, providing the maintenance of annual reproduction required for the survival of those birds is taken into account.
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