Photo shows a salt storage warehouse at Henan Pingmei Gas Storage Salt Chemical Co., Ltd.
Chi Xuewei keeps a cabinet of scissors on display in his office: carbon steel scissors, tailoring scissors and titanium steel scissors, each marking a different chapter in the transformation of his hometown's centuries-old craft. Zherong county in Ningde, southeast China's Fujian Province, has long been known as the cradle of knife and scissors making in China, a tradition dating back to the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), when local blacksmiths mastered techniques for forging, quenching and grinding blades.
An excavator on display at a showroom of Shanxi TZCO Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
Villagers dry soft rush straws in Hebu village, Hebu township, Linchuan district, Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province. (People's Daily Online/Zhu Haipeng) In midsummer, villagers in Hebu village, Hebu township, Linchuan district of Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, are busy harvesting and drying soft rush.
