A slow camera shutter speed depicts throngs of passengers at the Beijing West Railway Station during the Spring Festival rush. Officials estimate that 3.62 billion trips were made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel surge.
Luggage is scattered inside the Kunming Railway Station, the site of a deadly knife attack in the capital of Yunnan province in March. Twenty-nine people were confirmed dead and 143 others injured in the attack.
Farmers plant olive trees on the outskirts of Longnan City, Gansu province, an olive growing region in China.
Workers sort outgoing packages at an industrial park in Hefei, Anhui province, on November 11, aka “Singles’ Day,” a day that has become China’s busiest online shopping day.
Mourners return to Beichuan county, in Sichuan province on the sixth anniversary of the devastating 2008 earthquake.
Li Yu’er carries her two-year-old daughter on her back as she walks past ruined buildings near a temporary settlement in Longquan Village, Ludian County, Yunnan province where a 6.5-magnitude earthquake killed more than 600 people and affected more than a million others.
A mother says goodbye to her child at a baby hatch in Guangzhou. Abandoning children is illegal in China, but there are now more than two dozen hatches in the mainland where parents can abandon infants safely and anonymously. Use of hatches is common elsewhere in the world, but China only began experimenting with them in 2011. Often families abandon children with diseases or disabilities. In two months, this hatch was overwhelmed with 262 abandoned youngsters—all of whom were ill or disabled.
Customers drink sweet tea at the Guangming Tea House in Lhasa. Drinking sweet tea is a popular pastime in the Tibetan city.
Muslims prepare for Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, at the Niujie Mosque in Beijing.
Girls prepare for a rehearsal of a traditional dance of the Hui ethnic group in a class at Ningxia Arts School, in Yinchuan, Ningxia. They have been training for five years.
Are Ethnic Tensions on the Rise in China? A ChinaFile Conversation, February 13, 2014
