Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attend a gathering marking the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia diplomatic relations at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia in Moscow June 5, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)
People participate in a dragon boat race in Jinjiang River in Tongren City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 5, 2019.
A dragon boat championship was held in Tongren on Wednesday to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on June 7 this year. (Xinhua/Wu Weidong)
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A senior student, his classmates and teacher pose for a photo at the Dayangshu town railway station before departure on Wednesday. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
A student shows her train ticket from Dayangshu to Alihe before departure on Wednesday. A special train carrying more than 500 senior students arrived at Alihe, a town on the border of Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Heilongjiang province, on Wednesday afternoon.(Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
The Exhibition Center of Zhengzhou Linkong Biopharmaceutical Parkin the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in Zhengzhou in Central China's Henan province, won a silver award at the A' Design Award 2019. (Photos provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
An evening aerial view shows the Exhibition Center of the Zhengzhou Linkong Biopharmaceutical Park, in Zhengzhou in Central China's Henan province. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
Zhengzhou Zhongrui Headquarter, a financial office building in Zhengdong New District in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, won a silver award at the A' Design Award 2019. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
Another project, Zhengzhou Zhongrui Headquarter, is a financial office building in Zhengdong New District. Its design adopted the concept of "Ice Crystal", with the two towers wrapped up by shining glass walls.
Two buildings in Central China's Henan province, which won silver awards from an international design awards competition in Italy, have drawn attention for their unique designs.
Silver awards in the A' Design Award & Competition were given to the two buildings as part of the 2018-2019 design awards in Milan, Italy in April. There were 2,437 winners this year from 106 countries and regions in 98 different design disciplines.
A newly-recruited fireman runs through a fire wall during a training in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 5, 2019. Over 1,100 socially-recruited firemen are receiving a six-month training in Hohhot. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)
Newly-recruited firemen learn to operate electric clipper during a training in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 5, 2019. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)
Newly-recruited firemen do physical exercises during a training in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 5, 2019. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)
Children select colorful threads for making knots to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, June 7, 2019. The Dragon Boat Festival fell on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 7 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)
People make Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves, to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, June 7, 2019. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)
Mature women keen on dancing perform to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, June 7, 2019. he fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 7 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)
Tourists try palm leaf knitting at Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, June 7, 2019. Changsha Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall offered public activities for people to learn national intangible cultural heritages during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. (Xinhua/Chen Zeguo)
Teachers cheer for examinees at an exam venue at the Experimental Middle School in Zoucheng City, east China's Shandong province, June 7, 2019. China's national college entrance examination, or Gaokao, started Friday this year. (Xinhua/Wang Qisheng)
A mother gives encouragement to his son at an exam venue at the No. 1 Middle School in Jingzhou County, central China's Hunan province, June 7, 2019. China's national college entrance examination, or Gaokao, started Friday this year. (Xinhua/Liu Jiehua)
A teacher (R) cheers for examinees at an exam venue at the No. 10 Middle School in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou province, June 7, 2019. China's national college entrance examination, or Gaokao, started Friday this year. (Xinhua/Zhang Hui)
An examinee snuggles with her family member after exam at an exam venue at the No. 1 Middle School in Yiyuan County, Zibo City, east China's Shandong province, June 7, 2019. China's national college entrance examination, or Gaokao, started Friday this year. (Xinhua/Zhao Dongshan)
Examinees leave the exam venue at the No. 1 Middle School in Liuyang City, central China's Hunan province, June 7, 2019. China's national college entrance examination, or Gaokao, started Friday this year. (Xinhua/Peng Hongxia)
Senior students at Zhejiang A & F University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, pose for graduation photos wearing traditional Chinese costumes, June 3, 2019. [Photo/IC]
Senior students at Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, pose for graduation photos wearing uniforms from the first half of the 20th century, June 1, 2019. [Photo/IC]
Senior students at Shandong Agricultural University in Taian, Shandong province, pose for graduation photos wearing white wedding gowns, May 27, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Senior students at Guangxi University in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, form the shape of heart during their graduation photo shoot, May 26, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
A Long March 11 solid-propellant carrier rocket, with a payload of seven satellites, blasts off from a mobile launch platform off Shandong province on June 5, 2019. [ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY]
Children and parents catch fish with their hands in a rice paddy in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, to celebrate Children's Day on June 1, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Foreigners learn to make fragrant sachets filled with herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine at a medical school in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, on June 5, 2019. Wearing fragrant sachets is a tradition to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on June 7 this year. [Photo/VCG]
Students from the Beijing Dance Academy perform a Taiping drum dance, which is popular in the Mentougou and Shijingshan districts of Beijing, at this year's installment of the Chen Xiang series at the National Center for the Performing Arts. [Photo provided to China Daily]
A folk dance from the Hani ethnic group of Yunnan province expresses the longing for love. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The capital played host to the fifth installment of the Chen Xiang folk series.
Before a show at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on May 21, groups of artists in ethnic costumes began dancing jovially in the theater lobby, turning the space into an unlikely venue for an impromptu celebration of folk culture.
The Yangge dance from Haiyang, Shandong province, is among the four dance styles from the Han nationality in this year's production. [all Photos provided to China Daily]
The dancers were students from the Beijing Dance Academy's Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance Department. Under the instruction of teachers from the academy and local dance inheritors, together they presented the fifth installment of the academy's folk dance series, Chen Xiang, on May 21 and 22.
Students at Chaoyang Primary School in Kaihua county, Quzhou city in Zhejiang province, show "graduation certificates" made by themselves, June 3, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Students at Chaoyang Primary School in Kaihua county, Quzhou city in Zhejiang province, pour wood pulp into a large container, June 3, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
Students at Chaoyang Primary School in Kaihua county, Quzhou city in Zhejiang province, drain fibers in pulp through a screen, June 3, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
A student at Chaoyang Primary School in Kaihua county, Quzhou city in Zhejiang province, brushes a piece of self-made paper on top of movable types to make her own "graduation certificate", June 3, 2019. [Photo/VCG]
