Digital shellfish: These crabs went straight from one net to the next. As soon as they are caught, they don’t end up in a pot, but well-lit in front of the camera belonging to a farmer from the village of Xinhai, in the province of Jiangsu. She offers her catch for sale in a live […]
Using heavy equipment to battle the snow: Over the weekend, northern China was hit by a cold front. The central weather authority issued the highest level of warning for parts of the country due to heavy snowstorms. The provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia were particularly affected. In Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang […]
Painting with machines: When workers in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu dry rice, it can – from above and without sound – put viewers in an almost meditative mood.
Like penguins bracing themselves against the cold, fishing boats offer each other protection from strong winds in the port of Zhoushan in the province of Zhejiang. The grouping of several boats, which are tightly secured to each other, reduces the risk of capsizing. Strong winds or typhoons regularly hit the east coast of the People’s […]
Easy traffic access? The tenants of these houses in Guiyang live less than a meter away from the freeway – directly below it. The feeder road to the airport expressway was built in the 1990s, and homeowners were expropriated in order to make room in the densely populated city. The families who were relocated were […]
This year, the Halloween celebrations in Shanghai carried the spirit of the blank sheets of paper protest from last December. Some chose costumes with political messages. This unhealthy-looking young woman is carrying a begging bowl and a sign that reads 医学牲 Yīxué shēng – a wordplay on medical student and livestock, highlighting the precarious situation […]
After five months in space, the three taikonauts Zhu Yangzhu, Gui Haichao and Jing Haipeng have returned to Earth. The return capsule of the Shenzhou 16 spacecraft, slowed down by a large parachute, landed on Tuesday in the Gobi Desert – more precisely, at the Dongfeng landing site in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. State […]
China also mourns the death of Matthew Perry, who played the role of Chandler Bing in the TV series Friends. The US sitcom has a special place in the hearts of many Chinese. In the early 2000s, it was first introduced as a way to help people learn English. For the reunion special in 2021, […]
Happy handover: On Thursday, the astronauts of China’s “Tiangong” space station celebrated their relief by the three astronauts of the “Shenzhou-17″ mission who had just arrived by spacecraft. The new crew, under the command of experienced astronaut Tang Hongbo, will spend about six months in space conducting scientific experiments and paving the way for China’s […]