Dancer Yang Wu leads a choreographed dance Spirit of Peacock during the Millennial Road, a theatrical performance for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, May 14, 2017.
The "Silk Road and Golden Bridge" structure is seen at night in Beijing, capital of China, May 14, 2017. The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation opened in Beijing on Sunday.
There are four traditional elements in Chinese painting: poems, calligraphy, seal cutting and painting. To Xia, his works represents a fifth element: the art of photography.
Lu Wei creates a picture at a yard in Yuzhong district of Chongqing, Southwest China, May 13, 2017.
Sheep graze on the grassland in Urat Middle Banner of Bayan Nur city, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, May 14, 2017.
Performers dance during the Millennial Road, a performance for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, capital of Beijing, May 14, 2017.
When 19-year-old Serbian high school student Katrina Stojanovic stood on the stage of the ceremony hall of Xinhua News Agency in Beijing to share her story in Chinese, gasps of amazement spread among the audience when the first word was pronounced - it was hard to tell the voice belonged to a foreigner.
Nobel Prize winner James Fraser Stoddart was among the 10 best 2016 international educators honored at an awards ceremony in Beijing on May 13.
From China, passing through the Islamic world, and ultimately to the West, will the Belt and Road bring a clash of cultures?
"It's really a great opportunity to learn about AI. We are doing the self-driving cars. It's pretty cool!" 10th grader William told Xinhua at the eighth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California.
Organizers of the Budweiser Storm Music Festival, one of China's biggest electronic dance music festivals, say the event will visit 11 Chinese cities throughout the year, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
At 83, Xi'an-based oil painter Wu Yongnian has donated 24 works of his output to the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.