When outdoor sports enthusiast Xiang Dong established a rescue association in 2009, his main aim was to help others like him who might have become trapped or gone missing in China's wild places.
Having established an international reputation in the field of mathematics, US citizen Shing-Tung Yau is now hoping other young Chinese will follow in his footsteps.
Songtsen Langbo, a member of the Hol Xil National Nature Reserve patrol team, knows all there is to know about the unforgiving weather on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - yet a patrol last month still nearly cost him his life.
An accident in which five boys drowned in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, has had positive repercussions: it has led to other lives being saved by a group of life guards set up in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Many Chinese still tend to think of any talk of mental health in a negative light, says Timothy So, a psychologist whose mission is to apply positive psychology to make more Chinese happier, and doing so even with the very young.
Fan Jiayi never expected that the profound feelings he had for a Bohai horse during his childhood would lead him to a lifelong career of raising horses and quite possibly save the breed from extinction.
Han Guocai, deputy director of the Horse Research Center at China Agricultural University:
As a contemporary dancer, retired worker Peng Huanru feels she is young again on the stage. The 60-year-old is one of the 35 members of the Dama Contemporary Dance Troupe organized by the cultural center of Beijing's Chaoyang district in June.
Zhang Xingfu, 72, usually starts his day by carving a coconut shell at 8 am, sitting near the window with knife and shell in hands, something he has been doing for the past 50 years.
Donning a pink wig and pajamas to match, Josselin Sautetner, 32, a Frenchman, appeared in a music video singing a Chinese love song in various areas of Kunming, Yunnan province.
Shi Zhiyong won the weightlifting gold in the 69-kilogram class at the Rio Olympic Games on Aug 10, and more than anywhere else the ripples of his achievement were felt in Wutong, a small town in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Ding Xu's computer is only 2 meters away from his wife's sewing machine, a breadwinner for the family. With the sound of the sewing machine in the background, Ding spent 34 years writing the first book on the roots of Hui people's dialect in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
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