Xiao Jiguo. [Photo/CFP]

A Chinese man, Xiao Jiguo, is hoping to embark on a movie career as a low-ranking gangster who looks like US President Barack Obama, foreign media reported.

Xiao, from Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, has been cast in a detective comedy called Huo Bao, scheduled for release next year.

His character, Black Prince Charming punches the main character in a fight scene.

Xiao told Daily Mirror "My character is not the real Obama, but a low-level gangster.

"So when my boss tells me to beat people up, I'd do it," he added.

The 29-year-old Xiao has made appearances as an Obama impersonator and given speeches, even though his English is not very good.

"My English is bad. So when I go on stage to speak, I speak in a mix of real English and fake English. I make it up as I go," he said.

Coincidentally, Xiao shares a blood type with Obama, and his birthday is only one day apart from the US president's.

Xiao did various jobs, including working in a factory and as a security guard for almost 10 years before becoming an entertainer.

Xiao Jiguo poses with a fan in Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi province, Aug 18, 2015. [Photo/CFP]

Dr. Shi Zhuo comforts a little toddler patient with a cartoon app on his cell phone before heart surgery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, Sept 18, 2015. [Photo/weibo.com]

Pictures of doctor soothing toddler before surgery go viral online

A set of heart-warming photos in which a doctor holds a two-year-old girl on his lap outside an operating room have gone viral on China's social media.

The photos, taken at a hospital in Hangzhou, in East China's Zhejiang province, show a doctor trying to calm down the crying toddler with a cartoon app on his cellphone ahead of her heart surgery.

The doctor, named Shi Zhuo, is the father of a 6-year-old girl.

Shi said the little patient kept crying after entering the operating room. To calm down the little girl, he held her and showed her a cartoon app on his cell phone to comfort her. The 2-year-old was soothed by the app, allowing the surgery to proceed.

The doctor's move touched many Chinese netizens and won their praise.

Yang Wanying. [Photo/ Sina Weibo]

Young woman cycles 2,500 km to get to university

A 19-year-old cycled 2,500 kilometers along the coast in 23 days to arrive at Yangzhou University for the new academic year, Yangtze Evening News reported.

Living in Hulin city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province to the north, Yang Wanying, the young woman, was admitted into the computer science program at Yangzhou University in Jiangsu province, near Shanghai.

"There are many things that can't wait," she was quoted as saying. "If we don't do it now, we might never be able to do it."

Yang had previously undertaken long treks with her father from Heilongjiang to Tibet, in China's far west, when she was 15.

The orange circles show the provinces where Yang traveled along the journey. [Photo/Sina Weibo]

Zheng Yurong (R)and Yang Mingming. [Photo/Zhengzhou Evening News]

Blind opera musicians turn out to be biological brother and sister

Two blind musicians, who performed together in Central China's Henan province, later discovered they were brother and sister abandoned as babies, according to Zhengzhou Evening News.

Zheng Yurong, 30, made a living performing local opera when she grew up and she met Yang Mingming, also a local opera musician, when she went to Luoyang in Henan four years ago.

They later decided to have DNA tests carried out after they were frequently asked by their audiences if they were brother and sister, as they greatly resembled each other.

Zheng was abandoned on a snow-covered roadside in Lushan county in Henan province when she was a newborn baby. Yang suffered the same fate 10 years later and was adopted by another family.