Forest ranger guards her woodland home against fire

Zhu Caiqin spent her entire childhood in a forest of the Hinggan Mountains in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

Since the past three decades, she has been guarding the same woodland by climbing some 70 steps of a 24-meter-high watchtower that stands on Xingfu, a forest farm of the Zhanhe Forest Bureau, to protect the area's animals, birch and basswood trees.

Zhu works as a ranger in not only one of China's largest protected forests but also a zone that is highly prone to forest fires.