'In Uttar Pradesh, India, land provides the primary source of income for most residents. Exponential population growth, property shortages, and repeated subdivision have heightened competition for land. Records officials are frequently bribed to have living people declared dead in order to redirect the hereditary transfer of land to new owners. These bribes commonly range from 45 to 2,250 INR ($1-50)."
While many Chinese overseas artists are switching to other more lucrative fields, Huang Shanye, a painter of the Zhuang ethnic group, stands out as an exception. His art has gradually earned him fame over the course of his more than 20 years in the United States. He was even able to leave behind his steady job as an art teacher and fully devote himself to what he describes as a pursuit of beauty.
Every village has its young bright, white hope. WangShenfu was the first boy wonder to step out of his village in Miyun in the Beijing countryside. He bore much expectation on his young shoulders, and he shouldered it well. But to everyone's surprise, he decided to come home and announced his intention to farm.
Increasing concern over food safety, nostalgic appetite for the flavors from a simpler past and growing wealth have fueled a demand in China for alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture.
Xu Xiaoxue puts on her gown, cap and mask, all of them pure white, and checks the uniform carefully in front of a mirror to make sure not a single hair is left showing.
If Li Jian were Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the princess would be Xiao Xue (Little Snow). Li, 28, is a poultry feeder at the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying, East China's Shandong province. The young man can be easily spotted on the vast wetlands, not because of his deep sun-tanned skin, but the white swan often clumsily tagging along with him. The swan is one of the birds that the young man takes care of, and it has won much of his attention. "When we found her in 2007, she had serious wing injuries and was left behind by a flock of swans on their way to the south," Li says.
Liu Yuanju and his wife closed their small rural restaurant in 2004 and started to raise crabs in a small pond in their backyard. Almost 10 years later, their business, in Dongying in East China's Shandong province, has expanded into a crab farm that can bring in 2.5 million yuan ($408,500) a year.
A race to the summit of Mount Huangshan is a fitness test with a view, Gao Changxin finds.
Hongcun village, a 900-year-old settlement located at the foot of Mount Huangshan, boasts typical Anhui-style architecture and carvings that are said to be among the best-preserved of their kind in China. The village became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
Anhui will improve the language skills of local tour guides to better serve the growing number of foreign tourists, the provincial governmental authorities said recently.
When Lu Defu set out to take photos of elderly people with their families, he did not think it would be a great challenge. But he soon found that changing lifestyles have made family reunions a rare event. Wu Ni reports from Shanghai.
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