Adjacent newly built modern structures old ways & lifestyles struggle to persist. Here a family is watching over their Bee Hives, one of the sources of extra income for rural families in North Hebei. In spring and early summer Chengde has a wealth of flowers to pollinate and collect honey from.
View of the Chengde City Bridge and it nearly dry river in May 2005. The bridge connects both banks and is a necessary route from the railway station to the central City.
