Flag guards from Danzhai county take a photo before boarding a flight to Beijing. [Photo by Zhang Hui/Xinhua]
On June 11, six teenagers from Danzhai county, a Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture in China's Southwest Guizhou province, left the mountains for Russia. They were chosen to be flag guards escorting the FIFA flag into the Luzhniki Stadium at the opening game of the World Cup in Moscow on June 14. This is also the first time in 90 years that the World Cup has Chinese flag guards.
On June 14, six flag guards from Danzhai county escort the FIFA flag into the Luzhniki Stadium at the opening game of the World Cup in Moscow. [Photo by Xu Zijian/Xinhua]
The death toll in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a truck on a highway in central China has risen to 18, with another 14 people injured, police said Saturday.
The accident took place Friday evening in Hunan province south of the capital Beijing. Footage from the scene showed both heavily damaged vehicles along the rain-slicked highway. It appeared that one of the vehicles may have crossed a center divider.
Speeding, dangerous passing, poorly maintained vehicles and fatigued drivers are most often the cause of serious traffic accidents in China. Friday's disaster appeared to be one of the worst in recent months.
Despite vast improvements in safety, the World Health Organization says about 260,000 Chinese die each year in traffic accidents, many of them pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcycle riders. Long-distance coach buses are a cheaper alternative to high-speed trains or planes for the vast majority of working-class Chinese traveling around the vast country.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, hospital workers attend to a person injured in a coach-truck collision accident in Hengdong County, central China's Hunan Province, Saturday, June 30, 2018. Police says the death toll from the Friday, June 29, 2018 head-on collision between a passenger coach and a truck on a highway in central China has risen to more than a dozen. (Xiao Yahui/Xinhua via AP)
Conductor Zhang Xinxin (2nd R) helps a wheelchair user on the bullet train D6093 at the Yantai Railway Station in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, June 30, 2018. China's summer transport peak period will begin on July 1, with a total of 647 million passenger trips expected to be made by train. The period runs from July 1 to August 31, when students on summer vacation have time to travel or return home. (Xinhua/Tang Ke)
Children board a bullet train at the Yantai Railway Station in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, June 30, 2018. China's summer transport peak period will begin on July 1.(Xinhua/Tang Ke)
Contestants take part in a riverside fishing competition at a tourism resort in Laifeng County of Enshi, central China's Hubei Province, June 30, 2018. The fishing competition held here on Saturday was participated by 360 contestants from 120 teams from across China. (Xinhua/Yang Shunpi)
Couples exchange love tokens as they get married in a group wedding in front of the Shengjing Grand Theater in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 30, 2018. The group wedding was held for 27 couples from all walks of life. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)
In this aerial photo taken on June 30, 2018, couples get married in a group wedding in front of the Shengjing Grand Theater in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. The group wedding was held for 27 couples from all walks of life. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)
A flag-raising ceremony is held at Golden Bauhinia Square to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, in Hong Kong, south China, July 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Qin Qing)
People perform lion dance at an event to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland in Hong Kong, south China, July 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Qin Qing)
Passengers arrive at Chongqing North Railway Station in southwest China's Chongqing, July 1, 2018. China's railway network is expected to see 647 million passenger trips in this year's "summer transport" from Sunday to the end of August, according to the China Railway Corporation. The figure is 7.6 percent higher than the previous year, representing a daily average of more than 10 million passenger trips, the company said. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
A crowd of tourists sit in inflatable rafts as they enjoy rafting at Gulong Valley in Qingyuan city, South China's Guangdong province, on July 1, 2018. Rafting has become a huge hit due to the scorching heat. [Photo/IC]
Pupils play with ice cubes during class break in an elementary school in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province, on June 27, 2018. The school put ice cubes in all classrooms for students to cool themselves due to high temperature. [Photo/VCG]
A visitor shakes hands with a robot at the 22nd China International Software Expo in Beijing on June 29, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Cutting-edge technologies grabbed the spotlight at the 22nd China International Software Expo, which ends on July 2, in Beijing.
Themed as "New Era, New Concept, New Software", this year's expo attracted representatives from over 10 embassies in China, around 20 government officials, nearly 400 enterprises and journalists from over 100 media organizations.
The expo consists of seven exhibition areas, five summit forums, an industrial internet security elite invitational tournament, 21 parallel forums and a "Software Night" event.
A visitor tries clothes in front of a mirror equipped with technologies of cloud computing and artificial intelligence at the 22nd China International Software Expo in Beijing on June 29, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Officials launch the exhibition at the sightseeing platform on the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center on Sunday. [Photo by Gao Erqiang / chinadaily.com.cn]
World of Ghibli in China, the first themed exhibition authorized by Japan’s Studio Ghibli, opened at the Shanghai World Financial Center on Sunday.
The exhibition, which will run till Oct 7, comprises two sectors: “the artistic world of Ghibli – in memory of the 30th anniversary of the release of My Neighbor Totoro”, and “Castle in the Sky – Ghibli’s flying dreams”.
American Kungfu enthusiasts perform martial arts at Shaolin Temple on the Mount Songshan, Central China's Henan province, July 1, 2018. Over 200 Kungfu enthusiasts from America made a trip to the Shaolin Temple and performed martial arts with local monks. [Photo/Xinhua][Photo/Xinhua]
