The Spring Festival this year marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese zodiac that assigns one of 12 animals, either real or mythological, to each year.
Photo taken on late Jan 30, 2014 shows actors performing in a skit during the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, in Beijing, capital of China.
Fireworks light up the sky to celebrate the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Changsha.
Chunyun, with 3.6 billion people rushing home for Spring Festival, is a yearly event in China.
Reserves offer perhaps the best chance to save China’s critically endangered finless porpoise subspecies, whose nickname comes from the fact they were once as common as swine.
Visitors enjoy ice sculptures on display during the Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival in Bruges of Belgium.
Soinam Gyaco, 19, is the son of a farmer's family nearby the monastery. Driven by his Buddhist faith, he chose the life of a monk in Gonggar Qoide Monastery after finishing high school.
Beginning this winter, thousands of white swans from Siberia found a habitat along the Pinglu Yellow River wetland.
Zhang Qiaofeng, who graduated from Peking University in the 1980s, home-schools his son Zhang Hongwu and two other boys.
Dough sculptures are showcased at Nanjing International Expo Centre to celebrate the upcoming Qixi festival.
Summer dance camp, free for migrant children, is aimed at helping them get dance training.
The French artist July Ancel's paintings are on display in Beijing Yishu 8 during June 8-July 31.
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