Chinese research vessel Kexue, or "Science", leaves Qingdao Monday morning to west Pacific for the upgrading of the country's first global real-time ocean observation network.
Carrying about 77 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oceanology, Ocean University of China and other institutes, Kexue will carry out comprehensive and multidisciplinary research including geology, hydrography, chemistry and biodiversity. It is expected to return in Feb 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, president of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, was honored with the Olympic Order in Silver in Hong Kong on Monday.
IOC honorary member Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (center) poses for a group photo with other guests after receiving the Olympic Order in Silver in Hong Kong, on Nov 19, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
The IOC paid tribute to Timothy Fok Tsun-ting for his commitment to the Olympic Movement, presenting the award at the 133th Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Olympic Order is the highest honor presented by the IOC to people who have made great contribution to the development of international sports
China sent Shiyan 6 satellite into space on a Long March 2D carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province at 7:40 am on Tuesday, along with four micro satellites. Shiyan 6 will be mainly used for detecting space environment and testing relative technologies. Two Tianping-1 micro satellites will be deployed for accuracy calibration of ground monitoring equipment. Jiading 1 micro satellite is the first one of a low-orbit commercial communication network "Xiangyun" developed by a Shanghai-based company Space OK. Another micro satellite is developed by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of CAS for carrying experiments on adopting the android system in space and the open source satellite software. The flight is the 292nd launch of Long March series rockets.(Photo: China News Service/ Wang Jiangbo)
Children show greeting cards made to mark the World Hello Day which falls on Nov. 21 annually at the experimental primary school at Baokang County, central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Tao)
Children show greeting cards made to mark the World Hello Day which falls on Nov. 21 annually at a kindergarten at Qingzhou City, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Jilin)
Children show greeting cards made to mark the World Hello Day which falls on Nov. 21 annually at a center primary school at Yangguantun Township of Chiping County, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhao Yuguo)
Children show greeting cards made to mark the World Hello Day which falls on Nov. 21 annually at a kindergarten at Taihe County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Deng Heping)
A visitor shows a portrait drawn by an intelligent painting robot with facial recognition function during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 20, 2018. It can finish a portrait within three to five minutes. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
An intelligent painting robot with facial recognition function draws a portrait during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 20, 2018. It can finish a portrait within three to five minutes. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Visitors interact with a virtual panda of augmented reality (AR) experience project and pose for photo during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Visitors experience a postcard customize project of Xinhua News Agency during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Visitors experience a musical interactive project of Xinhua News Agency during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 20, 2018. The project generated pop music of different periods on the basis of gender and facial recognition. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Forest ranger Li Yongfu works in a bamboo forest at Hushi forestry farm in Chishui City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Oct. 24, 2018.
Chishui is famous for its bamboo forest. To guard the bamboo, forest rangers need to patrol for all year round. At the Hushi forestry farm, there is a patrol group consisting of a dozen of forest rangers. They are in charge of about an area of 2,400 hectares.
Forest ranger Tang Xiaoping (C) shows his photos of family members with colleagues at Hushi forestry farm in Chishui City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Oct. 24, 2018.
Loneliness is one of the difficulties they need to face as they can only go back home after one-week work. But all of them stay to keep working after those years as they love the bamboo forest and are determined to guard it. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaoyong)
Students attend basketball class at Jinfeng experimental school at Shishi City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Nov. 20, 2018. More than 40 schools provide extracurricular training for students whose parents are still at work when school is over in Shishi. (Xinhua/Song Weiwei)
People take part in the fish catching festival in Naleng Dong Village of Luocheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 19, 2018. The annual folk festival was held by local people to celebrate the harvest through fish catching.(Xinhua/Meng Zengshi)
Villagers give a banquet for tourists during the fish catching festival in Naleng Dong Village of Luocheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 19, 2018.(Xinhua/Meng Zengshi)
Villagers sing songs of Dong ethnic group during the fish catching festival in Naleng Dong Village of Luocheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 19, 2018.
With stitching techniques of Suzhou Embroidery and beading skills, the girl, an embroidery lover, makes her works with colorful dried flowers. (Photo: China News Service/ Gao Zhan)
Children use glutinous rice, vegetable and salted duck egg to make a kind of traditional food during an activity at a kindergarten in Lijiaxiang Township of Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 21, 2018. The activity was held Wednesday to greet the light snow, one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Children use azuki bean, corn and glutinous rice to make a kind of traditional food during an activity at a kindergarten in Lijiaxiang Township of Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 21, 2018.
