Deputy striking the right notes

While Lei Yan attends the annual session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, people in her home village in Southwest China's Guizhou province have been busy building a special type of square.

The square will feature performances by lusheng players. The traditional musical instrument of the Miao ethnic group features multiple bamboo pipes, each fitted with a reed, which are placed into a long wooden blowing tube.

The lusheng is played typically during the Lusheng Festival, the most influential festival of the Miao community, which falls at the end of March this year.