From Harley Davidson National Rally in China, one of 18 photos. A couple rides a Harley Davidson motorcycle during the annual Harley Davidson National Rally in Qian Dao Lake, in Zhejiang Province, China, on May 11, 2013. Around 1,000 Harley Davidson enthusiasts from all over China met at the rally, as part of the company’s 110-year anniversary. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
From Sichuan Earthquake: Five Years Later, one of 26 photos. Here, residents gather before a monument on the 5th anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, on May 12, 2013, in Yingxiu township of Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. China. (AFP/Getty Images)
From Chinese DIY Inventions, one of 39 photos. Zhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on November 14, 2012. Zhang, a local farmer who is interested in scientific inventions, has independently made seven miniature submarines with several fellow engineers, one of which was sold to a businessman in Dalian at a price of 100,000 yuan ($15,855) in 2011. The submarines, mainly designed for harvesting aquatic products, such as sea cucumber, have a diving depth of 20-30 meters (66-98 feet), and can travel for 10 hours, local media reported. (Reuters/Stringer)
From Sichuan Earthquake Recovery, one of 39 photos. A rescuer walks in front of a damaged building after Saturday’s earthquake in Lingguan town of Baoxing county, Sichuan province, on April 22, 2013. Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country’s worst earthquake in three years climbed to 208 with 11,000 injuries. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. (Reuters/Aly Song)
From China’s Toxic Water, one of 17 photos. On World Water Day, a look at part of southern China. Here, a woman fetches water from the Yangtze river. Fifty families of fishermen live in Yanglingang village. They fish for their livelihood and have been drinking water from the Yangtze for decades. In the last few years, however, the river has been significantly polluted, and the fishermen noticed that the water has a strange flavor. Since 2003, factory construction has erupted all around Yanglingang. Today the little fishing village is surrounded by power plants, paper-making factories, and chemical plants. (© Lu Guang/Greenpeace)
From China: Portrait of a People, one of 35 photos. A Beijing maiden wearing a traditional qipao made in Beijing. (© Tom Carter, as seen in the book CHINA: Portrait of a People)
From Chinese Lunar New Year 2013, one of 29 photos. A man watches as fireworks light up the skyline of Shanghai in celebration of Chinese New Year in Shanghai, on February 10, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on February 10 and marks the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
From China’s Toxic Sky, one of 31 photos. The rooftops of Beijing’s Forbidden City, obscured by thick smog, in Beijing, China, on January 16, 2013. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
From China’s “Nail Grave” Relocated, one of 11 photos. A 10-meter-high tomb stands in a construction site, waiting to be relocated, in Taiyuan, north China’s Shanxi province, after the owner of this “nail grave” reached an agreement with the construction consortium and would receive 800 yuan ($128 USD) in compensation, on December 13, 2012. Government-backed land grabs have become a volatile problem as officials and developers seek to cash in on the nation’s property boom, sometimes forcing people out of their homes without proper compensation. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
From No More House in the Middle of the Street, one of 6 photos. Excavators are used to demolish a house standing alone in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, China, on December 1, 2012. Luo Baogen, the owner of the house, who earlier refused to sign an agreement to allow his house to be demolished, finally signed the agreement after discussions with the local government and his relatives. The demolition of the house started this Saturday, local media reported. (Reuters/China Daily) (Previously)
From The House In The Middle Of The Street, one of 3 photos. A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs, according to local media. (Reuters/China Daily)
From Chinese Architecture, Old and New, one of 51 photos. Here, a reflection (left) mirrors a scene of offices and shopping centers in Hong Kong, on March 19, 2011. (Antony Dickson/AFP/Getty Images)
From Scenes From 21st-Century China, one of 42 photos. A circle-shaped piece of landscape architecture in Fushun, Liaoning province, on September 13, 2012. The 157-meter high building named “Ring of Life” cost around a hundred million RMB ($16 million USD) and used 3,000 tons of steel, local media reported. (Reuters/China Daily)
From The Great Wall of China, one of 37 photos. Part of the Great Wall of China at Jinshan, framed by an arch, on the outskirts of Beijing, on August 12, 2003. (Reuters/Guang Niu)
From The Last Maoist Village in China, one of 20 photos. A resident carrying her child cycles past a statue of the late Chairman Mao Zedong at Dong Fang Hong Square at night in Nanjie village, in China’s central Henan province September 24, 2012. Nanjie is touted to be one of the last remaining models of communist China, where the principles of morality and collectivism of the late Chairman Mao still strictly guide people’s daily lives. Mao is still highly revered in Nanjie, enjoying a god-like status. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
