Autumn charms across China

Late autumn is the best time of the year to enjoy the picturesque views of terraced rice fields on the Longji Mountain of Longsheng county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The villagers will harvest the rice next week. Their ancestors started to plant the crop in the terraced fields in late Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). [Photo by Pan Zhixiang for chinadaily.com.cn]