China's oldest person is 125-year-old Luo Meizhen (right) who lives with her 64-year-old son in Bama county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Luo, who is a Yao ethnic minority, was born on July 9, 1885.

On the left is China's oldest man, a 123-year-old Uyghur named Sadiq Sawut who lives in the city of Kashi in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

They are on the list of the 10 oldest people in China recently published by the Gerontological Society of China.

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