Researchers run a race against time

For many people, retirement is a time to forget about work and devote themselves to leisure activities.

That's not the case for Li Min and her colleagues, however. Instead, they are racing against time to research the revolutionary history of Macheng, Hubei province, to preserve the local revolutionary, or 'red', culture and pass it on to future generations.

In 2013, when Li, a 67-year-old retired official, started an association to research Macheng's red culture, the first thing she planned to do was to collect and record revolutionary songs from the city, located in the former revolutionary base of the Dabie Mountains.