The top three male contestants take a group picture. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The 2019 Yangshan half marathon took place at Yangshan Peach Culture Square in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on March 31, drawing more than 5,000 runners from both home and abroad.
Abdu Endris from Ethiopia finishes the half-marathon in 1 hour 8 minutes and 6 seconds. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Ethiopian runner Abdu Endris won the men's half marathon with a time of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 6 seconds. Two Kenya runners won the silver and bronze medals.
Lucy Nthenya won the women's race with a time of 1 hour, 18 minutes and 46 seconds. Chinese runners Dong Shiyun and Pan Tingting took the second and third places respectively.
Nianhuawan, a town in Lingshan Mountain of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, is an ideal tourist resort that features natural landscape, culture and unique lifestyle. [Photo by Lu Jianhua/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Surrounded by mountains and lakes, Nianhuawan is best known for its magnificent ecological environment, fresh air and clear water. [Photo by Lu Jianhua/for chinadaily.com.cn]
The town is famous for Chan Buddhism, a Chinese strain of Buddhism that is similar to Japanese Zen Buddhism. [Photo by Mu Yiyang/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Wu Wei tastes tea in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province, on April 1, 2019. To promote a new product, Wu will test hundreds of recipes. She once tasted 50 cups of tea to ensure the quality of one batch.
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Wu Wei, a young woman from Quzhou who is fascinated by tea, decided to give up her stable job and open a Taobao tea shop online in 2016.
She mixes various kinds of tea together or with fruits in different proportion to make tea with a variety of tastes and functions.
Sales from her teashop on Taobao reached 8 million yuan ($1.19 million) in 2018, up from 3 million yuan in 2017, and 2019 is expected to reach 10 million, Wu said.
Children paint in fields in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, on April 2, 2019. Children from a kindergarten joined in a painting activity with collected leaves and blossoms as pigments. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Performers play Guzheng, a Chinese zither-like string music instrument, during the launching ceremony of the 37th China Luoyang Peony Cultural Festival in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 1, 2019. The 37th China Luoyang Peony Cultural Festival was launched Monday at the China National Flower Garden in Luoyang. During the festival, peony species under artificial flowering time regulation have reached their full blooming, while other species left to flower naturally have also begun to bloom. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)
Zhou Cainan (3rd L), 85, shows silk weaving skills at a workshop in Jili Village of Nanxun Town of Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, March 31, 2019. Nanxun Town is one of the places where the silk culture was born. Silk production in Nanxun has a long history and the products are sold to overseas markets. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)
People present hada, a ceremonial silk cloth to show respect, during a spontaneous mourning ceremony to pay tribute to those who lost their lives while fighting the forest fire in a funeral parlour in Xichang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 2, 2019.
A fire that killed 30 people and engulfed about 15 hectares of forest in southwest China's Sichuan Province was extinguished Tuesday, local authorities said. Thirty people, including 27 firefighters and three locals, lost their lives while fighting the fire.
People lay wreaths during a spontaneous mourning ceremony to pay tribute to those who lost their lives while fighting the forest fire in a funeral parlour in Xichang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 2, 2019.(all photos...Xinhua/Zhang Chaoqun)
Ruan Xiyue (L), the fourth generation artist of Carved Gourd Ruan, communicates with Ruan Yizhou, an arts and crafts master of Gansu Province, at a gourd carving studio in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, April 1, 2019.
Photo taken on April 1, 2019 shows a carved gourd named "Diamond Sutra", created by Ruan Qi, an arts and crafts master of Gansu Province, at a gourd carving studio in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province.
Photo taken on March 31, 2019 shows a carved gourd named "Twelve ladies in Jinling", created by Ruan Lin, an arts and crafts master of Gansu Province, at a gourd carving studio in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province.
A carved gourd, as the name suggests, is a gourd carved with landscapes, portraits, animals, calligraphy or poems, and then painted with ink. The process of gourd carving includes choosing gourd, painting, engraving and coloring. It was inscribed in the first group of provincial intangible cultural heritages of Gansu in 2006.
Ruan Xiyue, the fourth generation artist of Carved Gourd Ruan, teaches her students at Lanzhou Vocational Technical College in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, April 1, 2019.
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A charity auction of copies of historical royal lanterns at the Palace Museum, April 2, 2019. The Palace Museum raised 20.05 million yuan ($2.98 million) after auctioning off of a pair of historically accurate Heavenly Lanterns (tian deng), a pair of Longevity Lanterns (wanshou deng) and five pairs of smaller royal lanterns.
The lanterns were accurate copies based on archives from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and used at the museum's special exhibition for this year's Spring Festival. The money raised from the auction will be used to sponsor education and cultural programs in impoverished regions. (Photo: China News Service/Du Yang)
An inside view of the Beijing Daxing International Airport, which will be put into operation before September 30.
The new airport sits at the junction of Beijing's southern Daxing District and Langfang, a city in Hebei Province. It is expected to handle 45 million passengers annually by 2021 and 72 million by 2025. (Photo/VCG)
