Crafting a town

Clockwise from top left: The roads in Cicheng near Ningbo in Zhejiang province are paved with white stones and black pitch to indicate the old waterway and stone road respectively. A porcelain exhibition is staged in an old house. Scrap-walled houses are still common in Cicheng. The east gate and the "city walls" in the ancient town have a modern touch. Photos Provided to China Daily