Liu Ying, a stewardess for operator China Railway Shenyang Group Co's Jilin section of the line, serves a drink during work. Liu has nearly 300,000 fans who have now subscribed to her channel on a short video platform and her videos have had more than 100 million views to date. Liu makes videos based on the everyday stories taking place on the train, passenger notices and train services. She speaks Northeastern Mandarin in the videos. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Liu Ying prepares for a video shoot. She often takes time to rest on the first day of her work rotation off periods, makes sketches for new videos on the second day and starts filming on the third day. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Liu Ying and her colleagues get busy with a video shoot. According to Liu, she tried before to write a formal script in advance, but it didn't quite work out for her. Nowadays, she prepares an outline of the story idea of more than a hundred words in advance and the rest is improvised. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]