As a machine that greatly changed the world, cars have also transformed the lives of Chinese families by opening up new areas to travel and providing an easy way for people to go about their daily business.

    Cars may have brought many social problems, but they also help Chinese people to go faster and further.

    www.xitek.com, one of China's leading photography website, is organzing a photo contest under the theme Cars and Life, with the Global Automotive Forum.

   Here we have chosen some of the excellent photos to show you the great changes in China's cities and towns in relation to autos.  

Covered by splendour

Photo by:Chen Yongping

On the road back from Eling Lake, source of Yellow River in Qinghai province

July 20, 2010

Across the desert

Photo by: Dai Quansheng

Cars travel across the desert at sunset

Long journey

Photo by: Hu Jun

Zhada county in far west Ali area, Tibet autonomous region

June, 2007

Cross the Yumenguan

Photo by: Wen Shan

Yumenguan, Gansu province

Summer, 2010 

Car brings new life

Photo by: Wu Haoyu

Niubei Mountain in Sichuan province

Tomb-sweeping Day, 2011