China 2021 Recap: Better lives

By Zhang Andi

Li Yicheng contributed to the selection

BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- Here are 7 photos taken in 2021, showing how Chinese people's lives are getting better and better in all aspects.

Party officials listen to and address local residents’ concerns at a meeting in Liaocheng, Shandong Province on November 22, 2021.(Wang Ziqian/Guangming photo)

A staff member of the Justice Bureau explains the Legal Aid Law to migrant workers in Yingtan city, East China's Jiangxi Province, on Dec.ember 27, 2021.(Photo by Yan Mijin/Guangming Photo)

Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, is making a radical change to traditional public restrooms. The city has built 10 modern, intelligent, and multi-functional urban public service stations. In addition to providing toilets, lounges, and volunteer services, there are also direct drinking water, books, WiFi, medical kits, sewing kits, and other services provided free of charge. The photo shows a worker cleaning the area around the station.(Jin Peng/Guangming Photo)

Luoyang, Henan Province, continues to provide free breakfast for front-line sanitation workers on the morning shift. The photo shows sanitation workers eating breakfast for free in Luoyang, Henan Province on December 19, 2021.(Photo by Huang Zhengwei/Guangming)

On December 24, 2021, police officer Li Rongpei of Chengbei police station of Baoying County Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province explains ways to prevent telecom fraud to people dancing in a square. (Photo by Shen Dongbing/Guangming Photo)

Passengers experience subway ride on the first day of operation for subway line 2 in Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province, on December 26, 2021. (Photo by Huang Zhengwei/Guangming Photo)

A high-speed train passes the Cross-Longhe Expressway and the Beijing-Kowloon Railway Bridge on December 1, 2021. The Ganzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway is the first direct high-speed railway from southern Jiangxi to Guangdong, and also the first high-speed railway through Heyuan city, marking the realization of the goal of "high-speed railway connecting every city" in Guangdong Province.(Photo by Bao Gansheng/Guangming Photo)