Actions might speak louder than words, but a clear message certainly helps. In her first year in office, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, has focused on actions and words, communicating through social media, the mainstream media, and by directly addressing the public.
Although the country's merchant fleet needs more sailors, low wages and social status, poor conditions and long absences from friends and family are deterring recruits, as Jiang Chenglong reports.
Li Heng, 31, is third officer on the MV Tianbaohe.
On the night Liu Jinsong approached Yueyang in Hunan province, he admits he was a bit scared.
Fisherman Shu Yin'an remembers coming across plenty of finless porpoises when he was young, but the animals - found only in the Yangtze River - are rarely seen these days.
Japanese scientist Tatsuo Arai is a man of few words, but when it comes to robots, the 66-year-old is willing to talk.
Charities and hospitals are working hard to reverse an imbalance in the supply of services between cities and less-developed areas, as Li Lei, Li Xueqing and Huo Yan report from Fuping county, Shaanxi.
In the past two decades, medical trains funded by Lifeline Express, a charity in Hong Kong, have helped to restore the sight of thousands of rural residents with cataracts.
Four years ago, Li Pei-chen, a rural planner from Taiwan, was invited to join a village transformation project in Xiamen, Fujian province.
Shi Qingxiang is known to friends and customers as "Tofu Beauty" - not because of her looks, but because she is a master tofu maker.
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