Villagers plant rice in a paddy field on Wednesday amid a campsite of makeshift homes in Hongxing village, Ya'an city, on April 20. Life is slowly returning to some sort of normality for the people after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the city. [Photo/Xinhua]
China launched its second space laboratory, the Tiangong II, on Thursday night, which space officials said will become the country’s largest scientific platform in space.