Photo exhibition on life in China's border areas opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- A photo exhibition showcasing people's lives in China's border areas opened on Saturday in Tokyo.

The event, hosted by the China Foundation for Human Rights Development and co-organized by the Japan-China Friendship Center and the Nationalities Pictorial, attracted some 60 attendees, including representatives from the two countries' friendship organizations and prominent figures from Japan's academic and cultural circles, at the opening ceremony.

This exhibition features nearly a hundred pictures to showcase the simple, ordinary and real living and production conditions of people of all ethnic groups in the border areas of China, using images to tell their touching stories of brotherly friendship, mutual assistance and creating a better life together.

Running through Sept. 27, the exhibition is open to the Japanese public free of charge.