Aerial photos taken on July 8, 2018 shows the flooded area in Qiaoxi village of Maxu township of Fuzhou city, East China's Jiangxi province. Flood caused by heavy rain damaged crops and housings in Maxu township and rescue groups were set up to help the affected people. [Photo/Xinhua]
Li Qunqun, a post-95s delivery girl, starts her daily journey in Beijing on July 9, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Li Qunqun, a post-95s girl working with a fresh food delivery center in Beijing, puts a dozen of packages in an icebox on the backseat of her electric motor, and starts her day on July 9.
The daytime delivery girl turns to a livestreaming host at night, and interacts with her fans through singing, dancing, and chatting.
Li earns about 20,000 yuan ($3,028) a month through her hard work, and uses most of her earnings to support her family.
Watching World Cup while enjoying crawfish has become a new trend this summer, with crawfish orders jumping to a new high, especially after 9 pm. When asked whether the night orders worried her, Li smiled and said most night orders are assigned to male drivers and she is asked to deliver at night only in the neighborhood. "The city is much safer than we image," she added.
Although Li is not a professional dancer - she learned most of the moves through self-taught videos - Li won the hearts of more than 30,000 online fans, with almost 10,000 of them showing up every time when she starts a livestreaming show. "I like her positive attitude toward life," one of her fans said.
Li began to earn a living in Beijing five years ago and intends to stay in her dream city as it offers better opportunities. "Food delivery is a tough job, but it's a stable work," she said. I plan to launch my own business and do livestreaming part-time, she added.
China sends a new Beidou navigation satellite into orbit on a Long March-3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province, July 10, 2018. The satellite is the 32nd of the Beidou navigation system, and one of the Beidou-2 family, which is the second generation of the system. The launch was the 280th mission of the Long March rocket series. (Xinhua)
Fishing boats are seen at berth at a harbor in Songmen Township of Wenling City, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 9, 2018. A yellow-level alert has been issued and third-level emergency response has been activated to cope with approaching typhoon Maria, the eighth typhoon this year, in China's coastal provinces. (Xinhua/Liu Zhenqing)
Visitors stand by the horses on the Narat grassland, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 8, 2018. As the peak time of tourism is coming, herdsmen are busy with preparations for welcoming the tourists. The horse ride is one of the most popular activities. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
Yang Pinghua finishes the 57.7-kilometer trip in 24.5 hours. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Starting from Haikou, Hainan province, in the early morning of Saturday, she swam for nearly 10 hours to reach the turning point in Xuwen county, Guangdong province, and returned to Haikou in the evening of Sunday.
Due to strong winds and currents she was unable to reach accompanying vessels for food supply.
Yang Pinghua swims across the Qiongzhou Strait against winds and currents. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
During the 57.7-kilometer trip, she only had some water and durian(fruit) at the turning point.
"Thanks to the strict physical training in the past year, I could continue and finally achieved my goal," Yang said. "My next goal is to take part in a relay swim across the English Channel with five other women in 2020."
Firefighters bring two fishermen stranded on sea to the shore in Dongping village, Lianjiang county, Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, July 11, 2018. [Photo by Rong Xiao/chinadaily.com.cn]
FUZHOU - Maria, the eighth typhoon this year, made landfall at around 9:10 am Wednesday in Lianjiang County, East China's Fujian province, bringing gales of up to 42 meters per second at its eye, according to local meteorological authorities.
Huge waves and strong winds are unleashed in Wenling city, Zhejiang province on Wednesday as Typhoon Maria made landfall in neighbouring Fujian province. [Photo/Xinhua]
A barista serves coffee to a woman at a new Starbucks Reserve flagship store in Beijing's Qianmen area on June 30. [Photo/Agencies]
Starbucks Corp's outgoing Executive Chairman Howard Schultz told Reuters on Monday that a recent slowdown of its business in China would be short-lived, seeking to ease investor concerns that the US coffee chain is under pressure in the fast-growing market
Customers sip tea in a traditional teahouse with decades of history in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. [Photo by Chen Hengqi/China.org.cn]
Editor's note: Sichuan Province is reputed as the Heavenly State, or "Tian Fu Zhi Guo" in Chinese, literally translating as a place with rich natural resources. The capital city of Chengdu, located west of Sichuan Basin, is a productive center, which may contribute to the laid-back way of life there. Sichuan teahouses have a reputation as being the best under heaven, and people say those in Chengdu are the best in Sichuan. People of Chengdu can often be found engaged in this beloved pastime – spending idle hours sipping tea in an old teahouse.
Photo taken on July 10, 2018 shows papier-mache pandas during an exhibition of the papier-mache artwork "1,600 Pandas" at Metrotown mall in Vancouver, Canada. "1,600 Pandas", a papier-mache artwork created in 2008 by French artist Paulo Grangeon for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), began its Canada exhibition tour on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liang sen)
A girl plays with a papier-mache panda during an exhibition of the papier-mache artwork "1,600 Pandas" at Metrotown mall in Vancouver, Canada, July 10, 2018. (Xinhua/Liang sen)
Actors give performance during the rehearsal of the Shakespeare play "The Tempest" at a press conference in Beijing, capital of China, July 10, 2018. The play will be put on stage at the National Centre of the Performing Arts from Aug. 9 to 15. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
Police officers and soldiers help a fisherman moor fishing boats in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 10, 2018. China Meteorological Administration on Tuesday issued this year's first red alert for typhoon as the Typhoon Maria or the 8th of the year approaches the Chinese coast. Typhoon Maria is likely to sweep Taiwan, Fujian, Jiangxi and part of Zhejiang on Tuesday and Wednesday.(Xinhua/Jiang Youqin)
Students use waste materials to make art work during a class at a school in Lincheng Township in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 10, 2018. Volunteers from Hangzhou Normal University and government officials organized the class to teach students how to classify the garbage and reuse the waste. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Carved works from East China's Anhui province on display at the China Cultural Center in Singapore. [Photo/Chinaculture.org]
The 2018 Anhui Cultural Year was held at the China Cultural Center in Singapore on June 1, offering a glimpse of China's Hui culture, which originated in East China's Anhui province.
On display are documents of 24 historical figures in Anhui to narrate the place's history and Anhui's intangible cultural heritage, such as Hui-style carving and the "four treasures of study" in ancient times - namely, paper, ink, brushes and inkstones.
Liang Xiaoqing, 26, poses in Beijing. [Photo/IC]
It's difficult to picture Liang Xiaoqing, a 26-year-old Beijing girl, modeling for clothing brands that targets seniors and middle-aged customers.
Recommended by a photographer, Liang entered the industry accidentally seven years ago.
"After my first photo shoot the brand sold 80,000 pieces," said Liang proudly. That experience gave her more visibility, and helped her get a foothold in the industry.
"Now, I can do a single shoot within one second," Liang said. "Posing for camera comes naturally."
Some days Liang shoots in eight different locations in 24 hours. She barely had any rest time during Alibaba's "Double Eleven" e-commerce festival last November. From 4 am to 1 am, Liang shot 400 sets of clothing on that day, almost 40 sets in one hour.
The hairdresser adjusts Liang Xiaoqing's hair before a shoot in Beijing, on Nov 7, 2017. [Photo/IC]
Liang's hairdresser spends one hour on her hair before each shoot. "Styling gel ruins my hair," she said. "If I quit the job one day, it won't because of lack of offers, but because of lack of hair," Liang joked.
