A mute girl stays in an activity room at Xi’an Relief Management Station in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, Jan 27, 2011. Seventeen children aged 4 to 14 will spend their Spring Festival holiday at the station this year. The children were received by the station for various reasons. Some were abandoned due to disease; some left abusive homes, and some lost their way home and lost contact with their family. [Photo/Xinhua]

Children playing at an activity room cover their faces to avoid the camera, Jan 27, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]