The first thing he does after heading downstairs is fire up over a dozen stoves and get his kettle going. He boils a large amount of water every day to help the families of cancer patients with their cooking.
Over the years, Tibetan women have driven battle tanks, maneuvered warships and served in missile units of the People's Liberation Army. Now, 23-year-old Kelsang Pedron has become the first Tibetan woman to fly a fighter jet.
Led by former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang party Ma Ying-jeou, the students were on an 11-day visit to the mainland, taking in Guangdong and Shaanxi provinces and Beijing, visiting high-tech companies as well as historical and cultural sites.
There has been a growing number of Hong Kong residents flocking to Shenzhen to dine, shop and enjoy the entertainment on offer. According to Hong Kong's Immigration Department, the city's residents made more than 53 million trips to the Chinese mainland last year.
Phasit, founder and chief executive of Locman2011, a film-production company in Thailand, said he expects to see more coproduction in Asia's film and TV industry. He was in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region last month for the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market, or Filmart, a cross-media, cross-industry trading platform.
Various-sized oxen made of bamboo strips with colorful cloth for the head and tail danced to the accompaniment of gongs and drums. Farmers dressed in distinctive Dong outfits holding plows and whips followed closely in their wake.
Spring Festival decorations such as lanterns and couplets are sold at the Shahe Market on Jan 7."Together, we have located more such markets in the suburbs of Beijing, and I am planning to visit them one by one." A visitor gets a taste of the market.
Zaxi Lamo, hailing from Jiala Village in Yushu City, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, was raised by her grandmother from a young age.
Li Quan, a 3-year-old boy, lives in Shiying Village of Dayin Town in Bijie, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Every week Li's home welcomes a special guest—a parenting coach, who encourages and guides his mother or grandmother to play, talk, read and sing with him.
He said the Chinese population of the white-naped crane had remained almost stable for a decade, and "with further research, we expect to find better ways to restore the population".
Chen Diefei, a 69-year-old woman, has spent the past five years making knitwear for children in need, Ningbo Evening News reported.
Tsao Wei-han and his daughter attend the Wuyi trail race at the Wuyishan National Park in Fujian province in November.Tsao Wei-han, who was born and grew up in Matsu, Taiwan, enjoys living and running his own business in Fuzhou, Fujian province.
Pakistani Hidayat Ullah, 29, is pursuing his PhD degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at Dalian Medical University in Dalian, Liaoning province, and has found studying and living in China to be ple