A Chinese website has published photographs from one of the reefs under China's control in the disputed South China Sea showing female sailors posing on ocean break walls, vegetable gardens being watered and even pigs in a pen.
The slide show of 17 photographs from Fiery Cross Reef shows how quickly China is developing facilities to support its troops on the newly formed island following major land reclamation.
Sina, one of China's biggest web portals, put the slide show online under the headline "Gratifying results on China's Yongshu Reef: building vegetable greenhouses (and) growing fruit trees."