While roller skating is often seen on public squares, nobody matches it with long-distance journeys. But two young men travelled 567 kilometers by roller skating from Shandong to Beijing in 5 days during the National Day holiday. It was a tough journey: they worn off 12 bearings of their roller skating shoes.  

    Mohe, a county in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province at the northern tip of China, is famous for Beiji village, known as China's "Arctic village". The post office received more than one million tourists last year and it was quite busy during summer, when daylight can last up to 20 hours.

    On Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Fuyou cooked dinner for the first time using a gas stove and tap water in his new apartment. Liu spent most of his life in a shabby hut in a mountain village in Shanxi. But his family, along with five other poor families, moved to new apartments on Sept 22. Their dream of leading a new life finally came true. "The old houses are over. So are those bitter days," he said.