Blindfolded students participate in an activity on Oct 12 to experience being deprived of sight for an hour at a primary school in Guangping county, Hebei province. The school organized the activity to mark White Cane Safety Day, which falls on Oct 15 every year, and to help the students understand the importance of protecting their eyes. [Photo by Cheng Xuehu/ For China Daily]

A reader gazes at a shelf emptied of Mo Yan’s books at Xidan Books Building in Beijing on Oct 12. Books by Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate in literature, sold out one day after he was announced the winner. [Photo/Zhang Hao / China News Service]