Zhong Liming is a photographer, who is in his sixties and has spent all his life near the Hangzhou section of the Grand Canal. He was born and raised in the city's suburbs, studied at a local high school, went to a local university, and worked across the capital city of East China's Zhejiang province. No matter how many times he moved house or job, he always remained close to the canal.
Weihai, a coastal city of Shandong province, has built a 1,001-kilometer route that strings together picturesque coastal and mountainous landscapes to further develop its tourism sector and rural areas.
From India to the Western Regions and then to central China, Buddhist grottoes have been transformed from a place of penance to one of worship.
Starting with an ancient painting, the viewers find themselves surrounded by the artistic scene of “plucking chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge and gazing long at the distant Southern hills”.
A group of women pick chrysanthemums, dry them and use them to brew wine as the Double Ninth Festival approaches.
Before Huang Bilian came to Beijing five years ago, she was a fresh graduate with an interior design major who was still looking for direction in her career.
As the morning sun spreads across Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, visitors begin touring around a new theatrical theme park, a journey that takes them back thousands of years into the province's rich history.
When he was 13, sometime in the early '70s, Chen Yaoling fell into the Honghe River near his home in Donglan county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region three times that year.
More than 300,000 kilometers traversed wearing 120 different pairs of shoes in over 38 years. That's one way of looking at the life of Yang Bolun, a 59-year-old police officer attached with the Maoershan Mountain Police Station in Guilin,Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Yang is tasked with patrolling the highest peak in South China, 2,142 meters above sea level and spread across 17,000 hectares, and protecting the forest there.
Xiangshan county in Ningbo,Zhejiang province, is seeking to develop its marine tourism targeted at young customers.
It was a regular Friday in August when Wang An considered taking a stroll around her workplace in downtown Beijing. She chose a nearby recycling shop.
As stargazing becomes increasingly popular in Beijing, the city's suburban areas, where there is a better natural environment and clearer skies than downtown, are seeing flocks of visitors, happy to pay big money for the experience of being blanketed by stars at night.