Musician Nancy Zhou won the grand prize of the second Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) on Sept 1.
The $100,000 prize money won by the 25-year-old Chinese American ranks among the highest monetary awards in international music competitions. Zhou said that she would use the money to further develop her music career.
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Zhou started to learn the violin from her father Zhou Long, who is also an internationally recognized musician. Since her orchestral debut at the age of nine, the Harvard graduate has won international awards such as the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Competition and the 2015 Jean Sibelius Violin Competition
Tri-colored glazed pottery technique inheritor Gao Shuiwang (right) teaches his apprentice in Nanshishan village, Mengjin county, Luoyang, Central China's Henan province, Aug 15, 2018.
Tri-colored glazed pottery technique inheritor Gao Shuiwang checks horse potteries in Nanshishan village, Mengjin county, Luoyang, Central China's Henan province, Aug 15, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Gao is a leading figure in the revival of tri-colored glazed pottery, or Sancai, a Chinese porcelain characterized by a glaze with three intermingled colors. The producing technique of Sancai, which flourished in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), was very complex and listed as one of China's National Intangible Heritages in 2008. Nanshishan village in Henan is regarded as an important village of Sancai culture, with more than 70 enterprises now engaging in the industry. [Photos/Xinhua]
An artisan works at a workshop of Gao Shuiwang, a tri-colored glazed pottery technique inheritor, in Nanshishan village, Mengjin county, Luoyang, Central China's Henan province, Aug 15, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
A visitor views the half-finished pottery at a workshop of Gao Shuiwang, a tri-colored glazed pottery technique inheritor, in Nanshishan village, Mengjin county, Luoyang, Central China's Henan province, Aug 15, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Liao Chentao, a native of Meizhou City in Guangdong Province, is an actor known for his resemblance to Bruce Lee (1940-1973), famed martial artist and cultural icon. A member of Bruce Lee Club in Hong Kong and of the Foshan Wushu Association, Liao is also the student of a master of Wing Chun, a traditional southern style of Chinese kung fu style used in close range combat. He became interested in studying Bruce Lee in high school at 15 years old, and later started his acting career in 2015. He now teaches Wing Chun at a school in Shenzhen, saying he will be ready to face any difficulties to promote kung fu. (Photo/ China News Service)
Yang Changgan makes a silver pot in his studio in Zhangjiajie City. Yang, born in 1986 in Guizhou Province, was exposed to the craft of silverwork from an early age. After completing his bachelor’s degree at Nanchang Institute of Technology in 2010, he learned with Yang Guangbin, a master crafter of the silver ornaments of the Miao people. He then opened his own studio in Zhangjiajie in 2015, mainly developing silver pot products. Yang said it takes 10-15 days to make a silver pot as the process involves nearly 100 steps, including pounding, refining and wielding. Yang said his creations sell well in nearly 20 countries and regions. (Photo: China News Service/Wu Yongbing)
Liao Chentao, a native of Meizhou City in Guangdong Province, is an actor known for his resemblance to Bruce Lee (1940-1973), famed martial artist and cultural icon. A member of Bruce Lee Club in Hong Kong and of the Foshan Wushu Association, Liao is also the student of a master of Wing Chun, a traditional southern style of Chinese kung fu style used in close range combat. He became interested in studying Bruce Lee in high school at 15 years old, and later started his acting career in 2015. He now teaches Wing Chun at a school in Shenzhen, saying he will be ready to face any difficulties to promote kung fu. (Photo/ China News Service)
The OS-X1, a suborbital rocket developed and produced by Chinese private company One Space, is successfully launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Sept. 7, 2018. The OS-X1 can reach a speed of Mach 4.5 in load flight. This was the company's second launch this year. (Xinhua/Wang Jiangbo)
Giant panda cubs Lu Lu (L) and Qiang Sheng play at the Shaanxi Rare Wild Animals Rescue and Breeding Research Center in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Sept. 7, 2018. Four giant panda cubs, born at the center in 2017, grow well now. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)
Students dine in a canteen decorated with planets in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Sept 5, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
The canteen wall is decorated with universe-themed paintings in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Sept 5, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Li Haifeng sits on a jumping ball at home in Enshi, Central China's Hubei province, on Sept 5, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Li Haifeng, who received nationwide attention in 2015 when he danced the Little Apple song with amputated legs on his hospital bed, has moved on with his life while keeping his cheerful smile.
Li Haifeng plays on the horizontal bar at school. [Photo/IC]
Li attended primary school last September in Enshi, Central China's Hubei province. The school offered him and his mother a dormitory, where they can stay Monday through Friday.
He got a donation of 500,000 yuan (about $73,154) in 2015, when netizens were moved by his dance. His previous operation and artificial legs cost more than 100,000 yuan, and his mother kept the rest untouched, leaving it for new artificial legs when he grows up.
Famous amputee elocutionist Chen Zhou used to donate money to him regularly, but his mother refused, suggesting Chen help families who are more needy.
Visitors take photos of a J-31 fighter jet during the Sixth China (Mianyang) Science & Technology City International High-Tech Expo in the city of Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept. 6, 2018. [Photo by Zheng Chengqiong/China.org.cn]
With the theme "Military-civilian integration, scientific and technological innovation and opening-up and cooperation," the four-day event has drawn over 650 exhibitors from 37 countries and regions.
A visitor poses in front of a Z-10 attack helicopter during the Sixth China (Mianyang) Science & Technology City International High-Tech Expo in the city of Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept. 6, 2018. [Photo by Zheng Chengqiong/China.org.cn]
A drone is displayed at the Sixth China (Mianyang) Science & Technology City International High-Tech Expo in the city of Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept. 6, 2018. [Photo by Zheng Chengqiong/China.org.cn]
A visitor experiences a racing game at a VR/AR exhibition area during the Sixth China (Mianyang) Science & Technology City International High-Tech Expo in the city of Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept. 6, 2018. [Photo by Zheng Chengqiong/China.org.cn]
A Fangzhou autonomous survey boat is displayed at the Sixth China (Mianyang) Science & Technology City International High-Tech Expo in the city of Mianyang, southwest China's Sichuan province, on Sept. 6, 2018. [Photo by Zheng Chengqiong/China.org.cn]