Performers dance during a gala for the 60th founding anniversary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) in Urumchi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 6, 2014. As an important component of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the XPCC is a special social organization that handles its own administrative and judicial affairs within the reclamation areas under its administration, in accordance with the laws and regulations of the state and the region. It assumes the responsibilities of cultivating and guarding the border areas.(Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)

A one-year-old baby crawls to pick whatever he or she fancies among a set of items on a traditional ceremony of "zhua zhou" or the first birthday grab held in Fuzhou of Fujian province on Oct 7, 2014. Whatever item the baby picks may be an indication of the baby's future career, according to the tradition. Altogether 20 families with one-year-old babies attended the traditional coming-out ceremony. [Photo: China News Service / Liu Kegeng]