Xinhua Insight: Hutong, Beijing's living icon

Photo taken on Nov. 1, 2017 shows a Siheyuan courtyard in Shijia Hutong of Beijing, capital of China. In early winter in China's capital, you can still catch neighbors chatting to each other in their Beijing dialect along the city's hutong, or traditional alleys. This is a scene unchanged for centuries, but the topic of conversation now is often how to make their communities better places to live. (Xinhua/Wu Kaixiang)