Walking her family's path, she nurtures cranes

Every day, Xu Zhuo opens her diary and writes down the details of the daily work feeding, breeding, inoculating and curing red-crowned cranes - the same work her father and aunt did decades ago.

Xu, 25, turned down a postgraduate recommendation from Northeast Forestry University to become a researcher in breeding and protecting red-crowned cranes in Zhalong Nature Reserve, Heilongjiang province, after her university graduation in 2016.

The reserve, covering an area of 210,000 hectares, hosts Asia's biggest reed swamp - an ideal crane habitat.