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Since China opened its doors to the overseas adoption of Chinese children in 1992, around 100,000 children have been taken in by US families. In the Bay Area of San Francisco, around 2,000 Chinese children are living in American households.
Chinese Consul General Luo Lin-quan and his wife held a reception for 29 US families who adopted children from China, where the parents, more than 30 children and the consulate staff as well as their families gathered to celebrate.
During the annual event at the consul general's residence in San Francisco, Luo told the guests that as parents of a boy, he and his wife deeply understand the difficulties of raising a child and he thanked the American parents for their enduring love and selfless devotion to the Chinese children.
According to China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, China had 550,000 orphans in 2013, and 24,000 families adopted children. Among them, 3,000 families were from overseas.
Of the overseas applicants willing to adopt Chinese children, the majority were from the United States.

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Italian photographer Michele Stanzione spent more than three months touring Europe while looking for sculptures to photograph. Images from his trips in 13 countries are now on show in East China in "The Immortals of A City" that opened in a popular shopping mall in Qingdao city, Shandong province.
The local government commissioned and funded the project, for which he traveled through 15 cities from August to November.
Stanzione visited the cities which have been named cultural capitals of Europe by the European Union since 1985 and searched for all kinds of sculptures in public spaces, including parks and streets.
He snapped around 10,000 photos of sculptures in Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, and Copenhagen, among other locations.
His exhibition in Qingdao displays 300 photos. The 34-year-old photographer says it is a hard journey to find the sculptures. When he asks local people where the city's impressive sculptures are, most of them say they have no idea.
Before he set out on his journey, Stanzione and his team searched for related information online and in guide books.

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Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has become the world's largest winter habitat for a critically endangered crane, thanks to enhanced conservation efforts and public awareness.
Tibet is currently temporary home to 7,000 to 8,000 black-necked cranes, around 70 percent of the world's total. Dawa Tsering, researcher with the Tibet Autonomous Regional Academy of Social Sciences, says it has turned into a winter haven for this critically endangered species.
Fewer than 3,000 black-necked cranes came to Tibet in 1995.
The birds are native to the plateau regions of China, India, Bhutan and Nepal. Attracted by a warm climate and abundant food, including barley, wheat and grassroots, thousands of them migrate to Tibet's river valleys from mid-October and spend the winter there.
The black-necked crane is among more than 90 endangered species on China's top protection list, along with the giant panda and golden monkey.
Tibet now has 47 nature reserves, covering 410,000 sq km, or 34 percent of the region's land area. Numbers of other rare and endangered species, including wild yaks and Tibetan wild donkeys, are also steadily growing.