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Photo: Migrant worker and cat lover Li keeps more than 50 cats at his home in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. Over the past six years, he has spent nearly all his meager salary on the animals. To care for them, he has not returned to his hometown in Hunan province since arriving in Guangzhou.

Bilingual news: A recent study, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, has found that simply imagining exercise can tone muscles, making them stronger and delaying atrophy. According to the Breitbart News Network, researchers at Ohio University conducted an experiment using two sets of healthy people. After four weeks, those who engaged in the mental exercise were twice as strong as those who did not.

Lifestyle: Wearing swimsuits, members of China's National Pole Dance Team perform in the open air as the temperature dips to - 50 C in Beiji, a village in Heilongjiang province, which is the nation's northernmost point on the border with Russia.