Northern Xinjiang (新疆) People and Landscape
As China rapid developing its cities, millions of village migrant workers move into cities to look for jobs. Some of their kids are tagged along with they parents to the cities. However there are no government agency and infrastructure to take care of those children. Sometimes those kids are wandering in the streets, playing and taking care themselves while their parents are working at the factories or construction sides. The picture was taken in a small city in Xinjiang Province of China. The little girl was playing a game using stones with her sibling in the corner of her family makeshift home. (Wu'erhe 乌尔禾)
Hutongs (simplified Chinese: 胡同; traditional Chinese: 衚衕; pinyin: hútòng) are a type of narrow streets or alleys, most commonly associated with Beijing, China. In Beijing, hutongs are alleys formed by lines of siheyuan, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.Since the mid-20th century, the number of Beijing hutongs has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings. More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.