Photographer Wang Dansui visited five Chinese immigrants living in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy. Like immigrants elsewhere, these Chinese transplants work to send home money to their families, all the while covering their own expenses and trying to start or grow their own businesses.
At the Hangzhou Social Welfare Center, residents can count on an elder-care robot named Ah Tie to remind them when to take medication, to dance, and to answer questions. Photographer Chen Ronghui watched the robots interacted with the residents and with their families.
In Fuyang, Anhui province, Feng Haiyong photographed volunteers trying to combat a widespread practice of retrieving dead bodies from rivers and ransoming the human remains to mourning families. The volunteers’ goal? To reunite the dead with their loved ones, free of charge. Feng’s images can be hard to look at, but within his essay are some glimpses of hope: photographs of the same volunteers learning the skills to save people from drowning.
In the spring of 2012, 26 sailors, including ten from China and two from Taiwan, were abducted by Somali pirates. Photographer She Xiaojian met some of the survivors, soon after their release in October. She’s story includes their account of their abduction and captivity, as well as their troubled reentry into Chinese society.
Guangdong’s second-largest soccer school, in the city of Meizhou, is now host to a group of 20 Uighur children, who have traveled across the country not only to learn the game but also to enjoy an education unavailable to them in their native Xinjiang. Yuyang Liu captures their dreams and the difficulties they face adapting to life so far from home.
As fish catches off the coast of China decline, independent photographer Yuyang Liu traveled by boat to West Africa to follow the story of Chinese fishing crews on the Atlantic. 400 Chinese fishing boats and thousands of Chinese fishermen troll the waters off the coasts of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. According to Greenpeace, who supported Liu’s work, about one fifth of China's distant-water fishing vessels are concentrated in African waters.
The number of children born in China this year is set to rise by 5.7 percent from 2015 as a result of the introduction of the country’s new two-child policy, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) Deputy Director Wang Pei’an.
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