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Amazing China: A fresh perspective

More and more foreigners are traveling, working and studying in China. Most are fascinated by the country's culture, as well as being impressed by its rapid development. With smartphones, they upload and share photos they have taken in China, showing an innovative China and prosperous lives of the people. The pictures on this page are chosen from hundreds taken by expatriates in China in the past five years, named Forging ahead (2012-2017): Amazing China-A fresh perspective. More photos will be chosen and shared in future sessions.

US citizen Bryan Shapiro celebrates his marriage to his Chinese bride Zhang Wan in a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony at a restaurant in the Chaoyang district of Beijing on June 12 last year. [Photo by Akash Ghai (United States)/For China Daily]


A painter works in a shop selling thangka, a type of Tibetan decorative painting on paper or cloth, near Yonghe Lama Temple in Beijing on Sept 13. [Photo by Kalpana Ghai (India)/For China Daily]


Foreign students take a photo with a Chinese driver in Beijing on July 3, after he gave them a free ride. [Photo by Julia Hatzinger (Germany)/For China Daily]


On August 8 last year, the road stretches across the mountains in Zhangjiajie, Central China's Hunan province. [Photo by Doan Bao Ngoc (Vietnam)/For China Daily]


Children play during a visit to the Terracotta Warrior Museum in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Dec 31 last year. [Photo by Lee Mckelvey (United Kingdom)/For China Daily]


The CBD of Beijing under the blue sky on Sept 17. [Photo by Ehrard Vermaak (South Africa)/For China Daily]


A group of foreign students from the University of International Business and Economics make a synchronized leap for a photo in the desert in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on July 7.[Photo by Nay Lin Tun (Myanmar)/For China Daily]


A child from Afghanistan, suffering from congenital heart disease, receives gifts on Sept 12 from the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, where she is being treated for free. The Chinese Red Cross Foundation has funded 21 children from Afghanistan, who suffer from heart disease, to receive free operations at the hospital. [Photo by Rafiullah Ayoubi (From Afghanistan,father of the child)/For China Daily]

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