Racing against time to record veterans' stories

After spending every weekend for the past two years chatting with veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), amateur photographer Li Ruobing had enough material to fill a book.

So that's just what he did. The clerk at Yangquan city's industrial and commercial bureau in North China's Shanxi province compiled his photographs and conversations into a book that he self-published and distributed among the veterans he had spoken with.

"I did this to show the veterans that they are not forgotten," he said. "I had to race against time because of their age."