The first London-Yiwu cargo train carrying British products enters China through the Alataw Pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 24, 2017. The cross-continent freight, loaded with containers carrying products including milk powder and soft drinks, left London, capital of Britain, earlier this month for Yiwu in east China's Zhejiang Pvovince. The 12,000-kilometer journey passes through nine countries in 18 days. (Xinhua/Zhang Yongheng)
Pupils perform during the Chinese chess cultural festival at Gedadian Primary School in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2017. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)
Pupils compete in a Chinese chess contest during the Chinese chess cultural festival at Gedadian Primary School in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2017. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)
An artist paints on a ceramic ware at Huaguang Ceramics Co., Ltd in Zibo, east China's Shandong Province, April 14, 2017. Zibo is well-known for its production and export of porcelain products. Many porcelain producers here specially invited foreign designers or design their products by combining Chinese elements so as to meet with customers of different countries. In 2016, Shandong Province raked in 3.17 billion yuan (460 million U.S. dollars) by exporting ceramic products. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
Chen Xiaoping (R), director of a robot research and development team, and Jia Jia, an interactive robot that looks like a real Chinese young woman in traditional outfit, talk through internet with Kevin Kelly on screen, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 24, 2017. Jia Jia was invited as a special reporter of the Xinhua News Agency to conduct the man-machine dialogue with Kelly on Monday. Jia Jia was unveiled in 2016 by Chen's robot research and development team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. It took the team three years to research and develop this new-generation interactive robot, which can speak, show micro-expressions, move its lips, and move its body. (Xinhua/Guo Chen)