Since the first robot Maria appeared in the movie Metropolis in 1927, more and more robots have been featured in various media performing different roles in daily life.
Rome was not built in a day. Nor was any other great city, town, village or company. But in China's rapidly growing internet industry, a potential market-leader, it seems, can be built from scratch within five years.
Naoer Jisi is an inheritor of Yugur culture in Gansu province. She endeavors to promote Yugur culture and traditional Yugur dresses for women.
Graduates majored in dancing and performance pose for their graduation photo in Shandong Normal University in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong province, May 24, 2016.
Children climb up a cliff on a vine ladder to an isolated village on the top of a mountain in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on May 14, 2016
Stars of Lijiang River: Elderly brothers with white beards
Many of the super rich in China are going the extra mile to help their children learn etiquette and manners.
Military-style wedding: Fighter jets, grooms in dashing uniforms
We present some of the most striking images from major stories around the world in the past week.
Elderly people may forget things, but robots never do.
Participants hang from a bridge about 40-meters-high above the ground during a drill at a scenic spot in Fuling district, Chongqing municipality, May 22, 2016.
2.1-ton tofu finishes in two hours in Central China
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