In the early 1990s, when Liu Shaohua was still a toddler living in Liuzhuang village in Weifang, East China's Shandong province, his mother would take him to the fields where she grew corn, peanuts or cotton plants, since there was nobody else to look after the boy.
When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Lushan county in Ya'an, Southwest China's Sichuan province, in April 2013, local 15-year-old Zeng Qiangfei was in his morning class.
A recent forum held in Huangchuan teamed up members of governmental bodies, cultural institutions and academic circles to brainstorm solutions for invigorating rural scenery, life and governance with art.
A conference to boost the development of ancient water towns in the Yangtze River Delta region was held in Lili ancient town in Suzhou on Feb 16, leading the joint application of the region's ancient water towns for world heritages.
Shi Zhi Zhai joins the booming scene of art market in Beijing by bringing fine specimens of classic Chinese art into its sale rooms.
Elementary school students of Nantong in East China's Jiangsu province recently tried their hands at making blue calico at the Nantong Blue Calico Museum.
The Shadowless Tower, one of two Chinese-language films competing for top awards at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, recently held its global premiere in Berlin, marking director Zhang Lu's fourth-time participating in the event.
A seasoned endeavourer in the realm of classic mountain-and-water painting, Gao Yun views this long-standing genre as an area where he can continue to seek breakthroughs. Yearn for the Mountain, his one-man show, now in Beijing, brings together dozens of colorful ink landscapes in testimony to his work throughout decades.
At a job fair in Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan province, recruiters pulled out all the stops to win over the thousands of job seekers waiting in long lines.
You could say his passion for art is bugging him. At Tan Yan'ge's studio in Changsha, Hunan province, there is a retro-futuristic world of insects, which seems to come straight out of a sci-fi movie.
A fisherman's hat, waterproof jacket, sports bag, a pair of cargo trousers and hiking boots are all popular outfits for trekking in China today. The style of clothing, combining functionality with fashion, originated in Japan as yama (meaning "mountain" in Japanese).
A toddler sits beside a bookshelf at Beijing Book Building in downtown Beijing, listening as his mother reads a picture book to him, one word at a time.