Bearers carry a bridal sedan chair in Beijing, April 28, 2017. In ancient China, on the wedding day, the bridegroom's family would welcome the bride to the wedding in a bridal sedan accompanied by a wedding procession.
A herd of cattle cross the Jialing River towards Sun Island in Youfanggou village of Xiangru township in Peng'an county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, April 29, 2017.
A visitor takes photos of wood carvings at a cross-strait craftwork expo held in Putian, Southeast China's Fujian province, April 28, 2017.
China's cultural industry saw rapid revenue growth in the first quarter of 2017 driven partly by booming cultural services, official data showed Friday.
Chen Qin, a member of the Miao ethnic group, was embroidering a butterfly for an order from the United Nations.
The photos on this page are all selected from a photographic competition named Maple Leaf Cup 2016 "Foreign Teachers in China".
As regulators grapple to keep a lid on soaring housing prices in big cities, some people sign up for the debt treadmill and others decide to just get on with life.
Zhong Risheng was determined to go to Africa regardless of his family's protests. The continent's pull was difficult to ignore as was the doctor's passion to help people.
Embroidery often called rare living fossil.
After an absence of nearly two decades, the 1,300-year-old Dengyu Stone Tower eventually came back home in North China's Shanxi province.
Shanghai-based Long Museum will show some of the expensive antique artworks which its founder Liu Yiqian, a billionaire and collector, has assembled through the years, at two exhibitions that begin on Friday.