Farmers in East China's Shandong province cross the Yellow River by ferry in 1980.

Local residents wait to buy fresh vegetables at a market in Xidan, Beijing, in 1984.

The hustle and bustle of a street in Hong Kong on the 10th anniversary of its return to the motherland on July 1, 2007.

Judges on a mobile court arbitrate civil disputes for herdsman in Barkol Kazak autonomous county, Hami prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on May 14, 2012.

A worker dismantles the last crane at the construction site of Shanghai Tower on March 16, 2014.

A military parade is held in Zhurihe, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the PLA's founding on July 30, 2017.

A performance to mark Children's Day was organized by China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China Welfare Institute at the National Center for the Performing Arts on June 1. (Photos: China Daily)

Trade Union members send mung bean soup to laborers at Xi'an Steel Works in Northwest China's Shaanxi province in June 1959.

A Tibetan woman winnows grain in Kaisong town, Nedong district, Tibet autonomous region, in 1963.