As a key step in poverty relief, around 2,348 people in Anlong county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, were relocated to 476 new households from September to November.
The folk songs of the Dong ethnic group are performed by a group of singers called a Kam Grand Choir. The performance is not accompanied by musical instruments and the songs are polyphonic with multiple overlapping melodies. Dong songs were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2009.
Villagers in traditional costumes attend the annual lusheng celebration at Yanying village, Danzhai county of Qiangdongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Guizhou province.
Migrant workers boarded a special train decorated with paper-cuttings and lanterns from Shanghai to Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on Jan 14.
Anshun city in Southwest China's Guizhou province has taken the lead in establishing a practice center, in a bid to select grass-roots cadres among demobilized soldiers to promote rural entrepreneurship, industrial development and poverty alleviation.
While most Chinese students have already gone on winter holiday, some from Jinshan primary school still go to school at 2 pm every workday for a two-hour martial arts training.