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Shanghai Daily photographer Wang Rongjiang paired up the photos he took in the past year. A photo is worth a thousand words, but what about two?
The Sound of Music
A mother plays piano for her 2-month-old baby at home on November 27.
A man plays piano for his elderly relative at a nursing home on January 1. Those 60 years of age and older numbered 4.8 million at the end of 2017, comprising about a third of the city’s residents.
Pride and Duty
Huang Lanfang, 88, cuts hair on Anren Street near Yuyuan Garden on December 5. Her little business has been going for decades. Huang says she never thinks of retiring — she is healthy and her mind is as sharp as ever.
Jiang Jun, 59, runs a newsstand at China Post’s Hongkou branch at 529 Wusong Road. It has been in business for 30 years and is one of the last in Shanghai.Jiang worries about his readers more than the demise of print in a digital age. “Our post office and my newsstand have a social responsibility,” Jiang said. “For my customers, especially the elderly ones, I’m their most familiar stranger.”
Front Window
Children, with their families, enjoy a ride on a No. 911 bus when the double-deckerservice resumed on the route in February.
Shanghai’s first automated people mover, a driverless train on the Pujiang Line, started operation in March.
Phone Booth
He Acui, over 80 years old, has worked in the telephone booth on Mianjin Lane for about 30 years. Two of the orange telephones there stopped working in March and the booth was closed two months later.
Lu Shusheng, 78, stands at the phone booth at 2511 Pudong Avenue on August 8.The booth, which he has run for nine years, is the last one in the Pudong area. The phone service fee he received for July was just 4.1 yuan.
Midnight Diner
Road workers enjoy their night snacks in a convenience store around midnight on Jianguo Road E. on May 17.
Soccer fans watch World Cup games in a bar on Xingeng Road on July 7.
The Wheels of Chance
Shared bikes pile up at a parking lot on Shouyang Road on June 19. The Haidian district court in Beijing has ordered a consumption restriction for ofo founder and Chief Executive Officer Dai Wei for failing to fulfill the contract of a Hangzhou logistics company. Meanwhile,ofo has failed to provide a timetable for the return of riders’ deposits, with more than 10 million people now in the queue.
Bicycle purchase tickets dating back to the 1990s are displayed at an exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up policies. At the time, bicycles were such hot sellers that supply didn't meet the demand.
