More than 1,300 primary school students attend a calligraphy competition in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Tuesday. (Photo by Li Jing/for chinadaily.com.cn)
Primary school students wearing traditional Han Chinese attend a ceremony during a calligraphy competition in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Tuesday. (Photo by Li Jing/for chinadaily.com.cn)
The competition, which featured hard and brush writing, was organized to encourage students to carry forward the culture embodied in calligraphy which occupies a distinguished position in traditional Chinese culture.
Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days.
Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)
A woman and a child make Zongzi, a kind of rice dumpling wrapped up with bamboo leaves, as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Zigui County of Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, May 29, 2019. Duanwu Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on Chinese lunar calendar. (Xinhua/Zheng Jiayu)
Contestants take part in a dragon boat race held on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning County of Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhuang Geer)
Two men compete in an event to catch a duck on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning County of Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhuang Geer)
A woman and a child make Zongzi, a kind of rice dumpling wrapped up with bamboo leaves, as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Zigui County of Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zheng Jiayu)
Contestants take part in a dragon boat race held on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning County of Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhuang Geer)
Russian reporters dressed in wedding robes experience traditional wedding customs on May 24, 2019. Twelve reporters from Russia's eight mainstream media companies pay a visit to Feilong village, Sichuan province, to better understand local culture. [Photo/China News Service]
High school seniors at a middle school in Handan, North China's Hebei province, cheer themselves up before the coming gaokao, or college entrance examination, by making victory signs on May 25, 2019. [Photo/IC]
A visitor views an immersive digital art exhibition themed around big data during the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019 in Guiyang city, Southwest China's Guizhou province, on May 26, 2019. [Photo/IC]
A local resident rides a bicycle on a flooded road caused by a heavy rainstorm in Zhuhai city, South China's Guangdong province, May 27, 2019. [Photo/IC]
Host Ju Ping (center) performs onstage with young students. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Many children's channel hosts, who are household names in China, will appear onstage. Celebrities such as Richie Jen and Christine Fan will greet the young viewers together with inspiring figures like Liu Yang, the first Chinese female astronaut, and Sun Yang, the Olympic swimming champion.
Young children present a dance about traditional Chinese culture. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The China Media Group will hold an International Children's Day gala, bringing together a medley of cultural and artistic performances at 8 pm on June 1.
Peking Opera artist Wang Peiyu (left) performs arias with young music lovers. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The celebration, which includes singing, dance, opera, acrobatics and kung fu shows, will be broadcast through all CMG platforms reaching audiences across the world.
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, meets with a group of international graduate students from China Women's University (CWU) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, May 30, 2019. The students are from CWU's International Master's Program of Social Work in "Women's Leadership and Social Development," established to implement initiatives announced by President Xi at the 2015 Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. So far, 72 female students from 27 countries have studied under the program. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
The new design features an adjusted layout, column setting and machine-readable code, while the new foreigner visa and residence permit cards will also feature a color profile picture of the holder.
China is to update its foreigner visa, group visa and residence permit from June 1, the National Immigration Administration announced Friday.
Bureaus of exit and entry administration across the country will in the meantime stop issuing the current versions of the foreigner visa, tourist visa to special economic zone, group visa and residence permit.
Application requirements, processes, standards, charging items and inspections remain unchanged, and previously issued visas remain valid, according to the administration.
Students dance during an activity to greet the upcoming International Children's Day at the Central Primary School in Fengshan Township of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, May 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiuke)
Children participate in an obstacle race with a family member during a competition in celebration of the upcoming International Children's Day at Baowei Kindergarten in Yantai City, east China's Shandong Province, May 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Sun Wentan)
Students sing during an activity to greet the upcoming International Children's Day at Yiping Primary School in Luohe City, central China's Henan Province, May 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)
A foreign college student plays with pupils during an activity in celebration of the upcoming International Children's Day at a primary school in Xiexi Village of Tianxin Township in Shanggao County in Yichun City, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhou Liang)
College students from China and foreign countries play with pupils during an activity in celebration of the upcoming International Children's Day at a primary school in Xiexi Village of Shanggao County in Yichun City, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhou Liang)