Children play in giant inflatable balls on a lake in the White Horse Sculpture Park in Nanjing, China.

Freshmen at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine line up for military training on a basketball court in Nanjing, China. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the government instituted mandatory military training for all university students.

Sun Lu Lu, 11, was orphaned in 1999, and left to live with her grandmother in Wang Dong Village, Jiangsu Province, China. The girl's father died in 1998. The girl's mother had been purchased for a dowery from a family in the western provinces of China and was forced to remarry in 1999, abandoning the girl.

A jewelry merchant passes out free bracelets and necklaces to a few lucky passers-by outside a supermarket in Nanjing, China. The merchant hoped the giveaway would act a promotion for his store.

A man tends a small patch of vegetables surrounded by new construction in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

A wedding party arrives at the apartment of the bride and groom in Nanjing, China. The groom carries the bride on his back as they move from the car to the apartment.

Security guards stand at the edge of a pool surrounding the OSC Stadium in the Olympic Village in Beijing, China. The stadiums and other venues built for the 2008 Olympics are now a major tourist attraction in Beijing and access is tightly controlled through ticket sales.

Shoppers exit a supermarket in Dong Tai, China.

Bikers and pedestrians try to navigate a traffic jam in central Nanjing, China, at the intersection of two minor roads. The jam lasted more than an hour and involved cars, trucks, buses, bikers, and pedestrians. Police were needed to calm the congestion.

A man sleeps in a hammock in a forested area of a park in Nanjing, China.

A woman fights with police as they dismantle part of her small restaurant and confiscate equipment that she stored on the sidewalk outside of her shop in the Fuzi Miao tourist market in central Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Police in Nanjing began a crackdown on sidewalk vendors and shopowners in advance of the May 1st worker's holiday.

Workers clear debris from outside an apartment building after renovating an apartment in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

People wait for trains inside and outside the Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, China.

A boy stands in the muddy streets of Sheng Cun, in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province, China, while workers unload a truck full of concrete to be used to improve roads in the area. "Sheng Cun" is translated as "Successful Village" in local tourist brochures.

People dance with colorful folding fans on a sidewalk in Beijing, China.

Construction workers in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, work at the site of a high-rise luxury apartment and business building in the central Xinjeikou District of the city.

Houses and farm plots cover the ground underneath the Yangtze River Bridge No. 1, one of the longest bridges in China, in the northwestern outskirts of Nanjing, China.

People climb up the hillside on a shortcut up the Purple-Gold Mountain in Nanjing, China. The Purple-Gold Mountain, known also as Purple Mountain or, in Chinese, Zijin Shan, is a tourist site popular with locals as a weekend destination. The park is also the location of the Sun-Yat Sen Mausoleum.

Seen out of a car window, a young child stands in the front area of a house in Qingdun Village, Gangyun County, Jiangsu, China. Gangyun County is one of the poorest counties in prosperous Jiangsu province.

Young men play basketball late in the evening at the Wu Tai Shan athletics complex in central Nanjing, China.

Buddhists worship at the Qixia Temple outside Nanjing, China.

A farmer works on a vegetable plot in a neighborhood surrounded by chemical plants in the northern outskirts of Nanjing, China.

People surround a girl lying injured on the pavement in Nanjing, China.

Fan Xi Bao stands inside his home in Fanzhuang Village, Gangyun County, Jiangsu, China, where he and wife Wang Shou Ha care for their orphaned granddaughter Fan Li Na, 10. The girl's father died in a car crash in 2000 and the girl's mother remarried, abandoning the girl.

A bicyclist rides down a street during a late summer rainstorm in Nanjing, China.

A mother and child look through goods on the ground during the weekly market day in Pangzhihua, Yuanyang County, Yunnan, China.

Trees line a road inside a large forest preserve near Dongtai, Jiangsu, China. China has the world's largest area of so-called artificial forests where growth is tightly controlled but woodlands are allowed to flourish.

An Army band performs in a public square at the Keqiao World Trade Center in Keqiao, Shaoxing County, Zhejiang, China, before the Keqiao International Textiles, Fabrics & Accessories Exhibition 2008. Shaoxing County is one of China's biggest producers of textiles.

A man naps in a lawn chair in the partially-demolished old section of Zhenjiang, China. Zhenjiang's old section is being renovated in hopes to draw more tourism to the city.

Huo Yang Xia cries as she describes the life of her orphaned grandson Fan Wen Jie, 11, who lives with her in Fanzhuan Village, Jiangsu Province, China.

A couple walks past destroyed hutongs, or traditional Chinese residential alleys, in central Tianjin, China, which have been demolished to make room for modern high-rise building construction.

A tiger skeleton stands in a vat of tiger wine at the Siberian Tiger Park in Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, China. The wine is said to imbue drinkers with various health benefits such as strength and virility. The wine sells for 780 renminbi (about US$110.00) per half kilogram of liquid.

A family lights sparklers and other fireworks in the crowd gathered in Stalin Park on the banks of the Songhua River during Lantern Festival celebrations in central Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.

Jobby, of the punk band Overdose, (right) and Zhou Ge, of the psychobilly band The Angry Jerks, smoke marijuana from a bong made of a soda bottle in a tattoo parlor in Nanjing, China.

The cook at an alley restaurant begins work for the evening in Haikou, China.

A large bull sculpture stands in the plaza outside the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Buddhist worshippers crowd into the Jiming Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, on the night before Lunar New Year to burn incense (also known as joss sticks) and pray for prosperity for the new year.

A statue resembling Pere David's Deer, a native Chinese species now only existing in captivity, decorates a parking lot in a luxury residential and shopping district in Haikou, Hainan, China.

Commuters ride a passenger ferry over the Yangtze River to Pukou, Jiangsu, China. Pukou, once a major center in China's railway system, has languished since a bridge was first built over the Yangtze in the 1960s.

Shoppers, illuminated by the lights of a car, walk down a street in the central shopping district of Tianjin, China.

People climb up a rock face at the top of the Purple-Gold Mountain in the outskirts of Nanjing, China.

Visitors to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, step on a hand-made Japanese military flag on the 71st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.

Rescued dogs fill a pen at Ha Wenjia's no-kill animal shelter farm in rural Jiangsu Province, China.

Crowds gather to watch fireworks and lanterns lift into the sky above the frozen Songhua River during Lantern Festival celebrations in central Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.

A passenger sleeps on a long-distance sleeper bus in Shandong Province, China.

A lone smokestack pokes above the horizon in rural Jiangsu Province. The prosperous province has been working recently to industrialize its poverty-stricken rural areas, often at great cost to the environment.