China Daily Photos 2012
Once the darlings of the Chinese economic miracle, private equity and venture capital funds are gasping for breath as the global economic slowdown is fast changing the industry landscape.
Video: Best wishes for all mothers
When novelist and poet ling Nieh arrived at the University of Iowa's prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1964, she was one of only a few international students in a predominantly American group of young writers.
Volunteers wearing panda costumes slide down from an ice sculpture during the Harbin International Ice and Snow World festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, Jan 11, 2013.
Yaowang Lake in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province, draws ice-fishing enthusiasts on Jan 9, 2013. Ice fishing can be a dangerous activity.
Flour sifter was a must-have tool for dividing fine flour particles from the oversized ones in rural China in the past. The sifter consists of a net made of horsetail and a round wooden frame.
It is not a job for the faint-hearted or those without a head for heights. The job of painting the top steel structures of skyscrapers with no scaffolding has to be one of the most dangerous jobs in China.
The 40-year-old Zhao Mingcui has to climb rugged mountain roads and rows across a river just to deliver letters and magazines in 14 villages of the county.
At night Liu Jianguo conducts security patrols at a local hospital, but when it turns to daylight he acts like a real clown.
No fixed place to hold activities, no stable financial support, and no certainty to live another day. But members of the cancer group Light of Hope join hands to fight the death threat in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian province.