Photographer captures city s hutong history By LI HONGYANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-04 09:25 Share Jia Yong in Beijing in 1998. CHINA DAILY
Over the past 37 years, Jia Yong, a Beijing resident dedicated to taking photos in hutong－the capital s traditional alleys－has been capturing and composing everyday life into pieces of art. People are more expressive than stationary objects in my photos, Jia said. People can represent times because in different eras, even only 10 years apart, people who live in the same alley would have a totally different living situation and attitude towards life.
In his alley-themed photos are residents at their doors enjoying the cool air, a deliveryman handing out the daily newspaper and a barber cutting a boy s hair.
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2021-03-16 07:30:13 GMT2021-03-16 15:30:13(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) China s State Council announced the appointment and removal of officials Tuesday.
Zuo Li was appointed as vice minister of justice; Xiong Maoping as vice director of the State Administration for Market Regulation; Wang Linggui as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, replacing Cai Fang; Xiao Yuanqi as vice chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission; Sun Jianli as deputy head of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, replacing Xu Siming; Zhang Xin as deputy head of the National Mine Safety Administration; Li Zhaozong as head of the National Administration of State Secrets Protection, replacing Tian Jing; Yin Zonghua as deputy head of the Liaison Office of the Central People s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and Zhang Wei as vice chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the China
Effecting positive change: Lam’s experience as a flood victim spurred him on to devise a water production system with his teammates.
A PHD candidate’s experience of coping with floods and the resulting effects on daily life led him to come up with a solution to Malaysia’s clean water problem.
Together with two other researchers, Lam Jia Yong from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Norfazliana Abdullah from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Mohamad Fakhrul Ridhwan Samsudin from Universiti Teknologi Petronas designed an automated self-powered water treatment and monitoring system for drinkable water production.
The team worked together on this project during the 2020 Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) Chrysalis programme, and subsequently won the Best Team Award for the Chrysalis Award.