The needy families receive shoes in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 24, 2018. A charity campaign to distribute Laba porridge, clothes and other household goods to the needy was held in Yinchuan on the Laba Festival on Wednesday. The Laba Festival, literally the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, is considered a prelude to the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 16 this year. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai)