A symposium for sdphoto.com.cn and Hou Heliang photo exhibition was held at Shandong Art Museum in Ji’nan city, Shandong province on June 9.

More than 100 aerial photographs by Hou Heliang were on display, telling stories of ecological civilization, economic development and cultural progression in Shandong province during the last 30 years.

Visitors enjoy Hou Heliang’s aerial photographs at Shandong Art Museum in Ji’nan, Shandong province on June 9. [Photo by Ju Chuanjiang/ China Daily]

A group of the photographers who signed up with sdphoto.com.cn pose for a photo. [Photo by Ju Chuanjiang/China Daily]

The exhibition was sponsored by the Shandong provincial government information office, sdchina.com and Shandong Art Museum.

Hou Heliang is the deputy director of the Society of Worldwide Ethnic Chinese Photographers Ltd and director of the Shandong Photographers Association. He has received hundreds of awards, including the Golden Statue Award for China Photography. Hou was honored as the leading aerospace photographer. He has authored works such as Mysterious of Photography and Shandong, the hometown of Confucius.