Xiong Sansan and his peers always cycle around in the city, trying to find a place where they can find waste iron.
Li Dabin, a former college teacher, is now being trained to be the first certified male post-natal carer, or maternity matron, in China.
Zhu Xin, 29, has always been interested in agricultural technology. After graduating from collage with a gardening management degree, he started his own business of building an herb garden.
A new type of greenhouse with a solar power generated roof has been gaining popularity in Jimo, Shandong since last year.
Lin Sina, 29, is a certified senior tea-taster in Beijing. Born and raised in Anxi county, Fujian province, where the famous tea Tie Guanyin (Oolong Tea) mainly grows, she developed a huge interest in tea.
Farmer Zhong Zhaowu leads a lonely life in Nankeng, Anyi county in East China's Jiangxi province.
Yao Qizhong, 40, a migrant worker who sells ginger in a market, has put his life and struggles into 200,000 words over three years.
Graduated from college in 2011, Li Wen, unlike other college graduates, chose a different path in life – to become a farmer. He contracted 20 mu (1.33 hectare) of farmland in Zhangshu, Jiangxi, and started his modern agriculture business. Li is now supplying his green vegetables to the markets.
Tourists in the first capsule hotel in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality chat with fellow guests on Nov 22, 2012.
The extremely low price of Chinese cabbage this year have become a troubling issue for farmers in Puyang, Henan.
Hagihan, 75, lives with his son Yeerkin in a residential area in Altay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. After he quit farming, Yeerkin became a driver and paid about 40,000 yuan to move into an 90-squre-meter apartment.
A construction team with about 100 workers has been living in the foothills of Huangshan mountain for more than a year to build a ground rail cable.
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