Members of a specially organized team for fighting drought and providing disaster-relief carry buckets of water to Tuoyan village, which is under severe water shortage, in Jintang township of Qiaojia county, Southwest China's Yunnan province, August 28, 2011.
Pan Shou's children are happy to hear her complain about the hospital bed being too soft.
Ruan Haotian took a deep breath and began his audacious job-hunting trip in Shenzhen, an economic hub in South China's Guangdong.
The Shang family, from Zhumadian of Central China's Henan province, recycles steel bars at a demolition site in Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong province, Aug 8, 2011. As many urban Chinese children are enjoying cool air conditioners, 8-year-old Shang Guangwei and his 11-year-old sister are spending their summer vacation at construction sites, recycling waste iron and steel with their migrant parents.
Xiao Longyuan, left, 12, and his 10-year-old brother Xiao Longlin take a break from their chores on a tobacco farm in a remote village of Xuan'en county, Central China's Hubei province, on Aug 11, 2011.
Wu began writing with his mouth when he entered school and has learned to take care of himself as best he can. Wu received his letter of admission from Zhengzhou University of Light Industry on Aug 9, 2011.
Residents get water from a reservoir on August 4, 2011, in Longlin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Due to drought conditions that have persisted since April, some residents of Longlin have had to endure a twice-daily, two-hour walk to fetch water for their homes.
Each year, tens of thousands of migrant worker flock to Yiwu, a famous commodities center in China, to look for jobs, but some of them who are old, less educated or without special skills cannot immediately find jobs.
In the scorching sun, three workers hang in the air to clean the outside windows of a skyscraper in Taiyuan city, North China's Shanxi province, August 3, 2011. The three workers are part of a 'spiderman' group whose job it is to clean the outer walls of skyscrapers while hanging by a single rope.
A 9-year-old boy named Xiong Sansan rides on the back of his father’s tricycle to collect scraps in Baisha, an urban village in Liuzhou city, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, July 29, 2011
Villagers carry drinking water home in the Nahong neighborhood of Yakou Village, Longlin County in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Sept 15, 2011.
One thing 26-year-old Liu Yu always said was that pork was essential for the dining table. Not surprisingly, he chose to breed pigs after college.
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