The photos on this page are all selected from a photographic competition named Maple Leaf Cup 2016 "Foreign Teachers in China".
In Mianning county, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, the village doctor Ma Li is alone at the health center. On the door is her phone number.
Two Italian explorers follow the footprints left by a panda and venture into the culture and history of China. This is the story being told in Panda's Home by Italian visual theater group TPO.
Covering an area of only 0.013 square kilometer, Kaishan Island sits at the outpost of the Yellow Sea, near the junction of Japanese and South Korean international waters.
Spring is about vitality and brilliance. An ancient Chinese poem goes: "Only silly people will not have fun in spring."
Xu Genshun may already be 67 this year, but the memories of his profession as a political photographer are still as intact as the poignant images he once shot.
In Russia's remote Arctic regions, reindeer herding has been a way of life for centuries.
Saigon Mama opens a Beijing branch, bringing its Southeast Asian style to the capital's international Sanlitun area.
Every year the world loses an area the size of Britain to a layer of concrete. Planet Earth II, the 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to Planet Earth, ended this week with a message calling on viewers to ponder the possibility of peaceful coexistence of humans and other species.
Nongtang, a unique type of Shanghai neighborhood, is an indispensable way of life for tens of thousands of Shanghainese. It can be said that if there were no nongtang, there would be no Shanghai and no Shanghai people.
The Beijing subway officially opened to the public on Sept 11, 1981. Since the most recent line opening late last year, the total length of the subway is about 554 km, with a share of more than 55 percent of the total public transport in the city.
Tucked away in the remote recesses of the Tibetan Plateau in Gansu province, Norden Camp exists in its own vacuum of serenity.