A large area of north China including Beijing and Tianjin are experiencing another round of heavy smog and air pollution that is expected to last for a week.
Pupils with their homemade lunches in Fulong Primary School, Suichuan county, Sichuan province, Feb 21, 2014.
A disabled man is desperately looking for a job in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province. Ye Guofang, 31, originally from Jiangxi province, braces himself as he goes to a job fair. He came to Yiwu days after Spring Festival.
70 years old, Bu Jianfang started collecting buttons in 1991, then he launched a World Button Museum in 1996. He has collected almost 200,000 buttons dating from ancient to modern times from more than 210 countries. His button museum was listed in Guinness World Records from 1997 to 2000. Now concerned about his age and physical situation, he is trying to coorperate with an organization to exhibit his collection to a larger audience.
A Chinese gay-rights activist is appealing a provincial authorities' denial of his request to establish an NGO to raise public awareness of gay issues.
President of Peking University Wang Enge, left, awards the title of Honorary Professor at Peking University to Lien Chan, honorary chairman of Kuomintang (KMT), in Beijing, China, Feb 19, 2014.
A palm-size infant was born in Chongqing municipality, and initially weighed 650 grams. The baby had gained 2 kg by Feb 18, after 90 days of hospital care.
Beijing issued a yellow alert for heavy pollution on Thursday, due to the heavy smog that had been shrouding the capital since the morning.
Fog and smog will blanket China's north and central regions on Thursday, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said.
There are over 100 older bachelors living in poor villages in Laiyuan county, North China's Hebei province. For various reasons, they never married. In Chinese rural areas, where raising sons meant they would support parents in old age, these bachelors may live out their lives in solitude and poor health.
China and Pakistan signed agreements for energy and infrastructure projects which were assessed with a value of $20 billion.
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