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China Face

About China Face

Behind each face is a story, and behind each story are hopes and dreams through which you can find a different facet of the society and country they live in - China.

Launched in March 2010, China Face has been a daily news feature focusing on a Chinese individual, whose life and experience resonates with society's pulse.

Contact: chinaface@chinadaily.com.cn

Gift is music to her ears

It may have taken him two decades, and the income saved from tons of recycled trash, but Wu Zheng finally fulfilled his wish to buy his wife a piano.

He wants to taint it black

Huang Wanjin's dining room overflows with bowls and pots, all containing pitch-black food.

Miner digs deep to solve gambling addiction

Zhang Yongqiang, 39, the owner of two grocery stores and several apartments in Chongqing, has a simple yet adequate reason for working underground: to abstain from gambling.

Grandma returns to school, to teach love

Thirteen-year-old Chen Zhengshan has a special "classmate", his 63-year-old grandmother who has accompanied him to every class for the last three years.

Hero teacher who saved kids gets second surgery

Teacher Zhang Lili, who risked her life to save two students from an oncoming bus, remained in complicated condition after undergoing surgery again.

Teacher 'king of kids'

Unlike most of his classmates who rushed into IT or other promising technological businesses, Yin Hongbo went from studying science straight back to kindergarten.

Train rapist, robber gets life behind bars

Jia Xiaoming, a fugitive who was involved in several cases of robbery and rape in the early 1990s, was sentenced to spend the rest of life in prison.