Former PLA officer excels in her new role as a community policewoman
For decades, Tu Maojiang has dreamed about wearing leather shoes. The 73-year-old from East China's Zhejiang province, was a victim of Japanese biological warfare during World War II.
With palm trees, warm breezes and skies as blue as the sea, Sansha - a collection of islands, reefs and areas of ocean in the South China Sea which form China's southernmost prefecture-level city - seems like a tropical paradise.
At the end of every Spring Festival holiday, people returning to work often carry goods ranging from festive clothing to hometown delicacies.
Lin Youhui is revered as the "barefoot Santa" by members of the Chinese People's Armed Police frontier defense division in Sansha, Yongxing Island.
Leprosy, though curable using modern medication, has cast a long shadow over China. Thousands of former patients have been left disfigured by the disease, while enduring social stigma means hundreds still live in colonies, isolated from the rest of society.
A picture taken using a drone in East China's Zhejiang province has been hailed as the most spectacular family photo of this year's Spring Festival holiday.
Qiu Shaochun is arguably the most famous leaf-blowing musician in China.
In the summer of 1881, a group of Chinese sailors, with their tanned skins, long braided hair and dragon-embroidered uniforms, walked down a street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northern England as the locals, unused to the sight of Chinese people, flocked around to observe them and pass comment.
The calm waters of the Yellow Sea, an area of ocean in the far north of the East China Sea, were the venue for the largest naval battle in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
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