A villager in Jingxing village, Lingwu city, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, feeds chickens distributed by local government, Aug 28, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
As a landlocked region, development in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region has long been hampered by a poor transportation infrastructure, dry climate and other elements.
The region has lifted 3.3 million people out of poverty since 1958, and about 21.8 percent left behind their impoverished lives in the past five years. Also, it has relocated 1.3 million people who had lived in mountainous areas under harsh conditions so they can have better lives.
Tim Harvey teaches local farmers about animal breeding in a sheepfold in Yanli village, Xiji county, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Aug 22, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
A villager picks raspberries in the local red raspberry poverty alleviation ecological park in Minning town, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Sept 13, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
A female worker organizes artificial flowers in the Longde Artificial Flower Processing Company in Longde county, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Aug 29, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
A farmer harvests pleurotus eryngii, a popular edible mushroom in a fungus industry park of Pengyang county, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, May 6, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo shows a building covered with plants in Jurong City, East China’s Jiangsu Province, Sept. 26, 2018. The building looks like a vertical forest. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Bo)
Drills are staged frequently at the Palace Museum in Beijing, where a team is stationed by the east gate to keep watch for fire in turn 24 hours a day. (Photo/CHINA DAILY)
50-strong prevention team keeps close watch on landmark
They are likely to go unnoticed by the multitude of visitors who pass the Donghuamen, or East Prosperity Gate, at Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City.
A force of about 50 firefighters stationed in a courtyard by the east gate of the former imperial palace keeps watch around the clock for what is probably the biggest potential enemy of the world's largest wooden architectural complex: fire.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, learns about the fishing condition at the Chagan Lake in Songyuan, northeast China's Jilin Province, Sept. 26, 2018. Xi inspected Songyuan on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
China's research icebreaker Xuelong is seen at a dock in east China's Shanghai, Sept. 26, 2018. Researchers on China's research icebreaker Xuelong returned to the home port in Shanghai Wednesday after finishing the country's 9th Arctic expedition. The Icebreaker, also known as the Snow Dragon, carrying a research team, spent 69 days on its journey. Scientists and researchers have conducted a series of investigations into the marine environment, submarine topography, ecology, fishery, sea ice and shipping routes in areas including the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Canada Basin and the central Arctic Ocean. (Photo provided to China News Service)
Chefs show stunt skills with kitchenware at a restaurant built on a cliff at Longquan Mountain in Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2018. The restaurant 1,600 meters above sea level allows customers to dine on suspended plank roads while enjoying great views of the mountain. Longquan is the highest peak in the Yangtze River Delta. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Yong)
The invitational exhibition Colored Sculpture in China was held in Beijing on Sept 22.
The exhibition was one of the largest of its kind, gathering more than 200 artworks from across the nation. Exhibits include representative pieces from inheritors of colored sculpture and highly rated works from students at art schools, representing different cultural styles.
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In China, colored sculpture not only influences areas of folk art, but is becoming accepted by more academics, artists and professional scholars.
The exhibition was co-organized by the Museum of Chinese Garden and Landscape Architecture and the Colored Sculpture Committee of Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association and co-hosted by several institutions, including the Arts and Design Academy at Beijing University of Technology.
Colored sculptures are shown at the exhibition. (Photo/China Daily)
A pair of twin sisters Zhang Wanqing and Zhang Wanxiu got the same score of 669 during the mid-term exam in Luoyang Oriental Foreign Language School in Luoyang city, Henan province, July 16, 2018. [Photo/IC]
On July 16, 2018, after the results of the senior high school entrance examination in Luoyang City , the 15-year-old twin sisters Zhang Lanqing and Zhang Yuxiu instantly became "net red": in this year's senior high school entrance examination, they scored the same twin scores . 669 points, tied for the fifth place in the school's senior high school entrance examination, teachers and students exclaimed that their excellence is not inconsistent, it is incredible, and it is said to be beautiful in school.
Staff members work at Airbus' Tianjin final assembly line for the A320-family of jets in north China's Tianjin, Sept. 27, 2018. From the time it was established in 2008 until the end of this August, the Tianjin final assembly line assembled and delivered a total of 378 A320s. (Xinhua/Li Ran)
Photo taken on Sept. 27, 2018 shows a plane at Airbus' Tianjin final assembly line for the A320-family of jets in north China's Tianjin. (Xinhua/Li Ran)
Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2018 shows a Guangzhou Customs press conference to announce a major success in busting the smuggling of endangered animals and plants, the largest case in the city. From July to August, Guangzhou Customs seized 7.26 tons of pangolin scales(scaly anteater), which means about 120,000 to 180,000 pangolins were slaughtered. The scales sold for 340 yuan ($49) per kilogram in Africa and 5,600 yuan per kilogram in China. (Photo/VCG)
Women from the Qiang ethnic group work on embroidery at a bazaar for the Sichuan Giant Panda International Eco-Tourism Festival in Wenchuan county, Sichuan province, on Sept 27, 2018. HUA XIAOFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY
The Canton Tower in Guangzhou, Guangdong province joined in a promotional activity sponsored by the World Health Organization, "Light up the world in Red to End Tuberculosis," on Sept 26, 2018. Landmark buildings in major cities across the globe turned red for the activity. [Photo/VCG]
A visitor gets ready for a simulated parachute jump at the 2018 World Virtual Reality Innovation Conference in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Sept 27, 2018. LI ZIHENG/XINHUA
