Connoisseur strives to reconstruct rare porcelain pieces

Luo Guoxin has worn thick eyeglasses since primary school, but that has not stopped him becoming one of the best china connoisseurs in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

The 49-year-old is the son of a porcelain-making couple, and he can easily tell the type and age of china from just ceramic chips.

He calls himself a "scavenger" and sees shards of ceramics buried underneath construction sites as great treasures. Luo is a regular at an antique market where he recently found fragments of a rare jar with a blue-and-white qinghua floral pattern.