China stands for Palestine’s right to armed resistance; 474 million trips taken during the Chinese New Year; sanctions against Russia hit Chinese companies for the first time; new wave of BRI investments in Africa

China strengthens its role as an international peace broker by intervening in multiple international conflicts; China supports Palestine’s full UN membership; PetroChina now controls Iraq’s largest oil field; Taiwan’s separatist ruling party won elections

To close off 2023, we’d like to share with you a retrospective video of this year’s top headlines about China that we’ve published this year.

As usual, we close the year with a retrospective of the most important events for China. Another year is coming to an end, the fourth since we founded Dongsheng and started publishing News on China. We want to thank you for your support, your attentive reading, your criticisms, and comments.

China doubled investments in Vietnam; number of billionaires drops; ultra-thin steel sheets domestically produced; rural women in Chinese social media

China calls for a “roadmap” to a two-state solution; US Secretary of Commerce counters China’s development; Chinese cancer drug costs 31 times more in the US; ReelShort and the “microdrama” trend

Spike in respiratory illnesses; Taiwan opposition parties run on separate tickets; negative FDI for the first time; renewable energy plants in deserts

Xi calls for immediate “ceasefire” in Gaza; record prosecution in anti-corruption campaign; Canadian spy suspect admits intelligence leak; more Chinese components in Huawei’s new cell phone

Xi Jinping in the US; BYD catches up with Tesla; Xizang Autonomous Region improves living standards; women’s boxing gains popularity in China

Xinjiang free trade zone; Australian Prime Minister Albanese met with Xi Jinping; Huawei launches 5.5G network; new public academic platform

IMF denies “debt trap”; China develops the “most advanced memory chip in the world”; eight years of reforming the People’s Liberation Army; pollution alert in northern China

More US sanctions against Chinese chip industry; China tightens graphite export controls; industrial renaissance in northeast China; China approves GM soybeans and corn

China condemns “heinous attack” on Gaza hospital; 3rd Belt and Road Forum; record number of state visits to China; young people go to community kitchens

China supports the creation of a Palestinian state; China-Russia trade growth; tourism exceeds pre-pandemic levels; breakdance on the rise

Syrian president returns to China after almost 20 years; 19th Asian Games started in Hangzhou; particle accelerator to produce semiconductors; ‘Comfort women’ film debuts in Japan

EU investigates Chinese electric vehicles; high-speed train to Taiwan; G77+China Summit; the elderly in the digital age

Venezuela’s President Maduro in China; tencent unveils AI model; regulating product packaging; small-town bookstores

Huawei overcomes US sanctions; giant hybrid rice yields up to 9,000 kg/h; war on pollution increases life expectancy by two years; chinese study reveals near-extinction of humans one million years ago

Xi and Modi discuss tension on the border; africa Industrialization Support Initiative; looted artifacts from China in the British Museum; environmental controls in deep waters

BRICS Summit; new South Africa-China agreements; increasing overweight population in China; youth and traditional millenary culture

Restrictions on US investment in China; investment in R&D doubled in the last five years; anti-corruption campaign in healthcare; renewable energy targets for provinces.

BRI investments increase and prioritize smaller projects; historic drop in foreign direct investment in China; gig workers face lower wages; movies from China aimed at Chinese audiences

Argentina will pay the IMF in yuans; yuan overtakes the dollar in China’s bilateral trade; floods in the north of the country; Cunchao, the rural soccer phenomenon

Fewer Chinese researchers in the US; more Chinese investments in the Global South; Shenzhen magnetic resonance machine; relics affected by climate change

US companies call for end to sanctions on China; China’s GDP grows 5.5% in the first half of 2023; China plans to reach the Moon in 2030; Shijiazhuang: City of Rock

CATL develops and researches electric batteries in Germany; more support measures for the real estate sector; clean energy targets achieved 5 years ahead of schedule; China Railway completes 453 km/h train tests

SCO’s 23rd Summit; measures to protect the chip industry; over-reliance on seed imports; fewer Chinese students in the US

Alibaba Cloud will broadcast 2024 Olympics; Taiwanese leader’s popularity slumps; world’s largest hydro-solar power plant; village basketball and football championships

Blinken’s Beijing visit; China’s first thorium reactor; Messi-mania in China

High-level diplomatic visits; investments in Saudi Arabia; Gaokao exam; “Become a Farmer” reality TV

US calls China “aggressive”; Suez Canal investments; big Pharma halted in China; history of bicycles in China

Increase in intermediate goods exports to Global South; two pharma companies fined for monopolistic practices; UnionPay surpasses Visa and MasterCard in debit transactions; Shanghai builds world’s largest bioenergy center

China suspends sales of US company Micron; China’s food security faces the challenge of an aging rural workforce; two Ming Dynasty ships found in South China Sea; Tibetan village turned into a large Buddhist art factory

China to use Russian port of Vladivostok; tech transfer to Thailand for high-speed trains; rural youth stay in their hometowns; free housing for young job seekers

Afghanistan to join Belt & Road Initiative; increased corn imports from BRICS states; Ice Age migrations from China to America; special Forces-style Tourism

China to regulate Artificial Intelligence; CATL’s new condensed matter battery; China increases exports to the Global South; Journey to the West, low-budget science fiction

Young people turn to temples; demand for AI workers; new variety of rapeseed; China to make bricks from lunar soil

Lula da Silva in China; ByteDance posts record earnings; new Tesla mega factory in Shanghai; Afrobeat gains popularity in China

Government takes over the management of the Chinese Football Association; Chinese scientists eliminate cancer in rats; China’s truck drivers band together; Wang Shu’s architecture

Honduran President Xiomara Castro to travel to China; US congressional hearing on TikTok; Huawei develops design tool for 14nm chips; Chinese scientists discover source of Moon water

Historic meeting between Xi and Putin; Hong Kong announces industrial policy for the first time; Baidu unveiled its version of ChatGPT

Two Sessions Summary; new National Data Office; China’s historical Mediation between; Iran and Saudi Arabia; modern Feminism in China

Li Keqiang’s report at the Two Sessions; US sanctioned companies at the Two Sessions; Douyin contests the e-commerce market; Chinese diplomats on social networks

Local officials become influencers; schools strengthen digital education; expanding GM soybean and corn areas; Iraq will use yuan in oil trade with China

Wang Yi meets Putin; provinces to employ more people; Guangzhou to set up high-tech support fund; 40 years of Chinese medical team in Uganda

China-US record trade; Taiwan’s KMT visit; pinyin turns 65 years; ‘The Knockout’ gains massive popularity

4 new US military bases in the Philippines; Chinese weather balloon over the US; “Peace Ark” the Navy hospital ship; Chinese scientists cloned three “super cows”

Bolivia and China agreement for CBC consortium to mine lithium; 892 million trips for the Chinese new year; extension of rights for migrant workers; the challenges of football in China

GDP increased 3% in 2022; historic population decline; nearly 60,000 COVID-19 related deaths in the last month; The ‘Three Body Problem’ debuts on TV

China reopens its borders; COVID-19 frontline rural doctors; Jack Ma gives up; Ant Group; China moves to climate-adaption

End of peak cases of COVID-19; U.S. boycott affects energy transition; Huawei makes progress in 10nm microchip manufacturing; world’s largest national park system

This week we want to share our second year roundup. This time, the content goes beyond what has appeared in our newsletters, which surpassed its 100th edition!

We present to you a retrospective of 2022, a year of significant historical events in China, such as the death of former president Jiang Zemin and the holding of the 20th CPC congress, and the challenges and changes that will set the course in the coming years not only for China and the region but for geopolitics at large. 

New agreements between China and Arab countries; shifting focus on COVID prevention; Shanghai bioenergy project moves forward; 119 years since the British invasion of Tibet

China bids farewell to Jiang Zemin; China expands social welfare; new trends in Chinese literature; Chinese tea, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Urumqi fire and new COVID outbreak; pop singer sentenced to 13 years in prison; local elections in Taiwan; new findings from the frontal region of the brain

New international mediation center in Hong Kong; growth of state-owned enterprise assets; scientists clone mutant gene of a corn variety; Qatar World Cup and panda diplomacy

Xi Jinping at the G20 summit; decline of Chinese billionaires; China at COP27; China surpasses US top university ranking

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits China; COP14 “International wetlands cities”; first model county to reduce inequality; reemergence of rural cooperatives; new plan for integrated communities

Lula’s victory and China-Brazil relations; new study on global perceptions of China; boosting self-employed businesses; decrease in violent crimes and sentencing; China’s 93-year-old woman conductor

CPC 20th National Congress outcomes; the China model of modernization; China’s Q3 economic performance; magnetic propulsion reaching the speed-of-sound; hope for Chinese women’s football

20th CPC National Congress report; Chinese netizens’ react to the Congress; Biden’s chip sanctions targets US citizens; China’s electric battery supplies to the US; physical growth of rural children in a decade

UN votes against US’ Xinjiang proposal; US policy of semiconductor “chokehold”; “Group buying” real estate; young Chinese turn to freelancing; observing the solar magnetic field

Elected delegates to the CPC National Congress; Huawei partners with domestic chipmakers; European demand for Chinese heaters; China-Afghanistan corridor trial; China’s six generations of filmmakers

Outcomes from the SCO meeting; Russian-Chinese-Mongolian strategic agreements; Xi’s red speech in CPC congress lead-up; long-distance underwater communication; challenges for China’s “sandwich generation”

Xi-Putin meeting at the SCO; the US bans Nvidia chip sales to China; “Little giants” to boost domestic tech; cracking down on online fraud; scientists discover a new lunar mineral

Dear reader, This week, the Dongsheng team is taking a break to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), one of the traditional festivals that takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar and China’s second most important holiday. Wishing you a day filled with lanterns, mooncakes, and moon-gazing. —Dongsheng editorial […]

CPC’s 20th Congress date announced; Chinese investments in Brazil; 234 arrested in Henan fraud case; mobilizing to fight Chongqing wildfires; China’s rural “toilet revolution”

China-Argentina agreement on lithium; China forgives debt and backs AU to join G20; largest national security case in Hong Kong; universities reopen to international students; droughts threaten autumn harvests

Chip breakthrough by Chinese-American scientist; Biden’s new CHIPS bill counters China; Central Bank cuts rates on loans; Sinopec discovers oil and gas in Xinjiang; China’s libraries provide social refuge

Reducing import tariffs for 16 poorest countries; global leader in scientific papers; China surpasses US in Fortune Global 500; mainland’s military exercises and Taiwan; Omicron outbreaks in Hainan, Xinjiang, and Tibet

Pelosi’s Taiwan visit; Pelosi on Chinese social media; rethinking BRI in Africa; “Snail Awards” for lazy officials; medical waste treatment after Covid-19

China’s nanochips breakthrough; China-Indonesia relations; Didi fined for data breaches; turning coal to ethanol; rising workplace accidents

Nigeria’s China-financed deep-water port; India’s record imports from China; easing bank credit for indebted developers; heat wave and underground bunkers; “positive dramas” and public participation

Protests after Henan bank closures; anti-asteroid radar system; Philippine and China-US relations; China surpasses US in life expectancy; the origin of China’s “netizens”

NATO Summit and China; Russian-China nuclear construction; BYD surpasses Tesla in sales: “Blue collar” workers in China; China’s ancient poet-celebrity

BRICS summit and dollar alternatives; G7 launches a new infrastructure project; Sinopec produces fuel from cooking oil; 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return; Hongkongers move to the Greater Bay Area

US law banning Xinjiang imports; permanent anti-corruption campaign; China’s first super aircraft carrier; legendary composer Qiao Yu passes away; youth working in the countryside

How African youth see China vs US; US-China defense ministers meeting; Tangshan crackdown after GBV; 40% air pollution reduction in seven years; ancient beer brewing practices

New Cuban-Chinese vaccine; study refutes Chinese “debt trap” in Africa; Shenzhou 14 mission begins; elder migrant workers; documentary on a China-Africa factory

China and Pacific Islands cooperation; UN’s Bachelet visits Xinjiang; Shanghai lockdown ends; discovery of rich uranium deposits; boat racing for the Dragon Boat Festival

Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework; 33 measures addressing the economic crisis; oral CanSino vaccine dose; increasing unemployment in China; China’s legendary pirate queen

Chinese C9191 jet competes with Boeing and Airbus; China and Sri Lanka’s foreign debt; Shanghai starts to ease lockdown; antitrust investigation on largest academic database; largest monthly property sales drop since 2006

Argentina joins BRICS meeting; record imports from Russia; coal energy amid Ukraine crisis; Hong Kong’s next chief executive; pandemic home workouts

China-Solomon Islands security deal; terrorist bomb attack in Pakistan; Covid in Beijing and vaccination efforts; centenary of Communist Youth League; new generation of women film directors

Continuing the zero-Covid policy; women lead Shanghai’s mutual aid work; 4.8% Q1 GDP growth surpasses expectations; food security and Ukraine-Russia conflict; Taiwan’s music influence, then and now

Beijing “unswervingly supports” Pakistan; Shanghai #Covid cases surge; employment problems for graduates; US vs China Consumer Price Index; migrant worker literature

Grassroots mobilizing and Shanghai lockdown; Yuan’s growing share in global reserves; foreign ministers meeting on Afghanistan; China-EU summit during Ukraine-Russia conflict; Jilin’s corn faces fertilizer and Covid crisis

Two-stage lockdown in Shanghai; financial aid for businesses; Wang Yi and Sergey Lavrov meeting; Huawei’s record profits; future of fishing in China

Tragic plane crash in Guangxi; US suspends select trade-war tariffs; growing African exports to China; height restrictions for skyscrapers; Shanghai’s revolutionary coffee culture

Xi and Biden discuss sanctions; geopolitics of South Korean elections; new Covid outbreaks in China; global consumption and China’s factories; anti-imperialist memes

Xi talks with Macron and Scholz; EU, China’s biggest trading partner; proposals at the Two Sessions; algorithms regulation kicks in; Weibo in international diplomacy

China’s neutrality on Ukraine-Russia.; Nord Stream 2 is out, Gazprom is in; aging healthy in a “silver economy”; China’s lead in clean energy transition; breast cancer increases in China

China on Ukraine; 50 years since Nixon visit; lithium in Latin America; cost of raising a child; legal action for “chained woman”

Berlin shifts to China as a “systemic rival”; Hong Kong’s fifth Covid-19 wave; low growth in land auction revenue; Chinese elders’ dating lives; 50 years since Edgar Snow’s death

Argentina joins the BRI; Putin-Xi meet in Beijing; Olympics low-carbon tech; world-renowned director Zhang Yimou; Gu Ailing/Eileen Gu wins gold for China

Dear reader, As we usher in the Year of the Tiger, here’s a look into what the animal symbolizes in Chinese culture and history, dating back to military uses in 8th century BCE to Mao Zedong use of the “Paper Tiger” to describe the threat of US nuclear armament. Despite scaled back festivities due to […]

Winter Olympics and Omicron; officials held liable for Henan floods; record Sino-Russian trade; recovery of pork production; debating Women’s Rights law

8.1% GDP growth in 2021; foreign trade hits historic high; zero corruption tolerance; 60-year low population growth; the decline of Chinese newsstands

Horn of Africa peace envoy; Gulf Cooperation Council joint trade; 6.5 million affordable housing units; “Zero Covid” strategy; building an “artificial moon”

Read our special Retrospective 2021 edition! Check out the important stories about Chinese politics, culture, and society from last year to help us understand the direction of the country in 2022

Nicaragua-China diplomatic relations; central economic conference; 20 years since joining the WTO; capturing carbon; Nanjing Massacre National Memorial

10 questions for US democracy; China-Laos railway; Didi leaves NYSE; visual-impairment in China; survival of bike share services

One billion vaccines at FOCAC; controlling gambling in Macao; Shanghai Data Exchange; nationalizing private schools; increasing maternity leave

Oil reserves to control inflation; fake state-owned enterprises; falling Alibaba stocks; regulating groundwater use; chinese “xianxia” fantasy genre

CPC’s new “historic resolution”; first Xi-Biden meeting; Singles’ Day shopping festival; Why youth are avoiding factory jobs; the future of C-dramas

China tops global vaccine exports; historic liquified natural gas deals; growing foreign financial investment in China; climate-related health risks; EDG wins e-sports World Championship

Developed nations’ carbon responsibility; tensions over Taiwan; personal Information Protection Law; Covid response at Shanghai’s Disney; turning carbon into animal feed

50 years of PRC at the UN; magnesium production falls; property tax pilot program; gen Z consumer habits; mental health in schools

Cuba-China energy alliance; chinese GDP maintains growth; real estate anti-speculation measures; a woman taikonaut in the space station; the “dancing grannies”

COP15 on Biological Diversity; CIA creates new China intelligence center; combatting the energy crisis; Hong Kong’s “Northern Metropolis” plan; 110 years after the Xinhai Revolution

Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou returns to China; State intervention in the Evergrande crisis; restructuring private conglomerate HNA; Moutai’s ex-chairman jailed for life; power cuts and soaring coal prices.

Understanding Evergrande collapse; China stops funding coal plants abroad; AUKUS nuclear sub-deal pressures China; chinese mining companies leave DRC; remembering September 18th

China donates 100 million more vaccines; resurrecting the “ghost cities”; coal and rare earth prices skyrocket; Beijing criticizes the military coup in Guinea; historical origins of “common prosperity”

Capping rent prices; New Guangdong-Macao economic zone; Investing billions in chips; Biodiversity conservation; China wins at the Paralympics

Reducing testing for school kids; Rotating top teachers in public schools; Controlling online celebrity fan clubs; Limited hours for online gaming youth; Controlling 996 overwork culture

Explaining “common prosperity”; Regulating property developer Evergrande; New personal data protection law; Investing in Argentina’s nuclear energy; Growing rice in factories

Future of China-Afghan relations; brands post-Xinjiang cotton boycott; skyrocketing shipping costs; leaders in AI; thriving museum culture

Trade war tariffs and US inflation; Chinese fintech apps in Africa; national fitness plan; household debt; women construction workers

Rescuing education, “hijacked by capital”; World’s most expensive housing; Mao’s “protracted” comeback; Pig farm high-rises; PRC at the Olympics (1952-2020)

Private tutoring industry; delivery workers’ rights; Xinjiang-EU exports; Henan flooding; history of “red financial system”

China-Afghanistan; China launches carbon trading market; big tech signs “self-discipline” pledge; Zhejiang’s “common prosperity” pilot; space program in popular culture

½ billion Chinese vaccines for COVAX; who funds coal energy?; banned video game giants’ merger; world’s largest wind farm; a look back: rural school meal program

Chinese solar panels in Xinjiang; Didi investigated for national security; China approaches Germany and France; China eradicates malaria; first socialist workers villages

CPC’s centenary special; Xi’s speech at the centenary event; Brazilian ex-President Lula praises the CPC; behind China’s economic success; bringing the CPC museum to life

Mission to Tiangong space station; FBI agent confesses false spy claims; future Germany-China relations; from deserts to forests; red TV drama success

China’s anti-sanctions law; G7 competes with China; data as national security; Three Gorges Renewables IPO; Chinese artists satirize G7

US tech competition bill; Guangzhou Covid outbreak; Huawei launches HarmonyOS; high-tech greenhouses; gaokao entrance university exams

Three-child policy; curbing digital industries’ emissions; flying 30 times the speed of sound; Latin America’s Chinese vaccines; Chinese dramas reach Africa

China’s support for Palestine; EU parliament freezes China deal; “zero tolerance” for commodity speculation; cracking down on bitcoin mining; mourning agronomist Yuan Longping

Mars landing; Taiwan invests in mainland chips; pilot private pension plan; “cooling off” divorces; 2008 Wenchuan earthquake remembered

WHO approves Sinopharm vaccine; lowest growth rate in 7th census; government earns 98% public support; party branches in private sector; “red tourism” grows tenfold

US pharma defends vaccine patents; Chinese IPOs grow in US market; data center energy consumption; food or “feed” security?; celebrating International Workers Day

Fukushima’s nuclear waste; Australia vetoes BRI deal; Yangtze’s fishing ban; opening up childbirth rules; world’s biggest oil painting factory

China’s trade surplus with US grows; Alibaba fined for monopolistic practices; Chinese GDP jumps 18.3% in Q1; Shenzhen’s “green” GDP alternative; “red films” for CPC’s centenary

China exports half its vaccines, Middle East-China relations, world’s largest radio telescope, real estate falls as financial investments grow, financing the green economy, “tomb-sweeping” festival

China-Iran deal; no “forced labor” found in Xinjiang; campaigns to support Xinjiang cotton; Sinopec bets on hydrogen; boosting migrant worker consumption; reeling in the tutoring industry

China challenges US in Alaska; Sino-Russian cooperation against sanctions; JPMorgan pledges investment in China; reeling in predatory online lending; archaeological discovery and Chinese origins; declining US culture among Chinese youth

QUAD moves against China; China-Russia-Venezuela UN bloc; increasing retirement age; China’s safe bond market; fight against air pollution; from Paris to Guangzhou Commune

Highlights from “Two Sessions”; 6% GDP forecast in 2021; Hong Kong electoral reform; debunking “vaccine diplomacy”; genetic tech self-sufficiency; “cultural palaces” for workers

Stories about women in China for International Working Women’s Day on 8 March 2021. History, challenges, and advances affecting women’s lives.

African “debt-trap” myth debunked, steps towards digital yuan, “stay-at-home” economy booms, rural revitalization plan announced, biodegradable plastics industry, Chinese blockbuster celebrates mothers

Spring festival edition. Happy Year of the Ox!

Digital Silk Road; 1,500 new COVID-19 cases; government reproaches national energy regulator; celebrating artist He Xiangning

Smartphone training program for the elderly in Beijing, August 2018 [Huizhong Beili Community Center]

Commemorative stamp for 100th anniversary of the Chinese edition of the Communist Manifesto, 2020 [Shine]

Training program graduate, Fay, teaching in her hometown [Cindy Liu/World of Chinese]

Selfie with Karl Marx at exhibition celebrating 200 years since his birth, 2018 [Chen Xiaogen/People Visual via Sixth Tone]

Chairman Mao’s 127th birthday was celebrated nationally on 26 December 2020 — here pictured with students from Africa, Asia and Latin America in 1959 [Hou Bo/ChinaFotoBank]

Ezra F. Vogel with his book “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China” (2011) [Caixin Global]

Tan Weiwei performing Xiao Juan (“Pseudonym”) song on violence against women, 2020 [Bilibili]

Vaccine developed by the state-owned SinoPharm, 2020 [Xinhua]

Zha Xiaoyuan, Xi Zhen and Wang Lan were students in the first coeducation cohort at Peking University, 1920 [Ding Yining/Sixth Tone]

Subway workers dressed in Hanfu clothing in Xi’an, Shaanxi, 2020 [Zhang Yuan/China News]

“Moonlight hometown” by Gao Chao (高潮), 1984 [china.com.cn]

Zheng Yefu, Fight (1933), woodcut [Shanghai People’s Fine Art Publishing House]

ian Xuesen looking through an optical device used for rocket and missile testing [参考网]

Porcelain craftsperson in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, 2o13 [“吉卜赛男人”
via ZOL]

Ruins of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing [VCG Photo via CGTN]

Recreated Tang Dynasty-style night market in the former Silk Road hub of Xi’an, 2019 [Wang Jian/People’s Daily]

Writer Eileen Chang in Hong Kong in 1954 and one of her manuscripts [Wikipedia and University of Southern California Libraries]

Celebration of 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China is held at the Tian’anmen Square in Beijing, 1 Oct. 2020 [Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua]

Scene from NetEase’s Ni Shui Han, a multiplayer role-playing game set in Song dynasty China (10-13th c.) [@逆水寒 on Weibo]

The Eighth of the Twelfth Lunar Month, 2008 [Sixth Tone/Cai Dongdong] and The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya, 1814 [Wikipedia]

Liu Cixin at the Nebula Awards book signing, 2014 [Greeny/Sohu]

People gather to celebrate the victory in the war against Japanese aggression in Zhangjiakou, northern Hebei province, 1945 [NetEase]

Train 6061 from Liupanshui, Guizhou province to Kunming, Yunan province, 2014 [Qian Haifeng, Sixth Tone]

Kindergarten children in Weifang, Shandong province, being taught to “clear your plate” in 2013 [VCG]

Five warriors getting ready for the battle against Japanese occupation
[Zhang Guanyu Memorial Site]

Movie theaters reopen across China [World of Chinese]

China Telecom workers install a 5G base station in Gansu province, 21 February 2019 [Zhang Tieliang/VCG/Getty Images]

Li Ziqi cooking with her grandmother in rural Sichuan province [YouTube]

Women volunteers carry sand bags to dike in Jiangjialing Village in China’s eastern Jiangxi Province, 11 July 2020. [Xinhua/Zhou Mi]

Jin Xing, transgender actress and one of China’s top TV hosts [SCMP]

A herder and her daughter in Akyaz Valley, Zhaosu County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 2018 [Xinhua/Hu Huhu]

Villagers performing the dragon dance and lantern show during the Duan Wu festival in Xiachong, Hunan province. 25.06.2020 (Xinhua/Cao Zhengping)

Volunteers from the Beijing Blue Sky Rescue Team spray disinfectant in Yuegezhuang wholesale market in Fengtai district, Beijing. [Photo: people.cn]

Chinese medical experts and supplies arriving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
23.05.2020 (SCMP)

Hong Kong passes bill protecting the Chinese national anthem amidst national sovereignty and security measures [Photo: AFP]

Deputies attend the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) as it opens in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing [Photo: Xinhua]

Shanghai moviegoers and posters of box-office hits “Detective Chinatown 3” and “Hi, Mom”, 21 February 2021 [VCG/China.org.cn]