Train attendants receive extra training to prepare for the opening of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link in Fuzhou City, East China’s Fujian Province, Sept. 10, 2018. The XRL runs from a station in West Kowloon, heading north to the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Boundary, where it connects with the mainland section. Fuzhou and Xiamen, both cities in Fujian, will have direct high-speed services between Hong Kong’s West Kowloon station. The attendants undergoing training will serve on these trains. (Photos: China News Service/Li Yiming)
A set of newly issued stamps themed on the Chinese classic Book of Songs. (Photo/Asianewsphoto) China Post issued a set of special stamps themed on the Chinese classic Book of Songs on Sept. 8. The set consists of six stamps, which represent six major poems from the poetry collection. The price for a whole set is 8.9 yuan (around $1.3). Book of Songs, the earliest poetry collection in Chinese literature history, boasts 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC) to the mid-Spring and Autumn period (770 to 476 BC).
A citizen shows a high-speed railway ticket from Shenzhen North Station to Hong Kong West Kowloon Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 10, 2018. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway will officially start operation on Sept. 23. The sale of the tickets began on Monday. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
A citizen prints a high-speed railway ticket from Shenzhen North Station to Hong Kong West Kowloon Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 10, 2018.
Qizai, a rare brown and white giant panda, is seen at Shaanxi rare wild animals rescuing and raising research center in Xi'an, NW China's Shaanxi Province
The Palace Museum is releasing a new calendar to welcome the Year of the Pig and promote its collections. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
There are still a few months to go before 2019, but the Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has already begun its campaign to welcome the Year of Pig by releasing a new calendar on Monday.
This will the 10th year in a row that the Forbidden City Publishing House, which is affiliated to the museum, has released a calendar, one of its most sought-after souvenirs.
Each page of the calendar promotes one collection from the museum, China's former imperial palace, with pictures and text.
A fashion editor, who is called You Mi, exercises to get inspiration on matching style in the gym downstairs her office in Hangzhou, East China's Hangzhou province, Aug 29, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
A staff member helps Chinese passengers to settle on the ferry "Xin Jianzhen" in Osaka, Japan, Sept. 10, 2018. The ferry "Xin Jianzhen" with 181 Chinese passengers who were stranded by a powerful typhoon in Osaka has left the port for Shanghai on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)
The ferry "Xin Jianzhen" prepares to leave the port Osaka, Japan, Sept. 11, 2018. The ferry "Xin Jianzhen" with 181 Chinese passengers who were stranded by a powerful typhoon in Osaka has left the port for Shanghai on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Du Xiaoyi)
Photo taken on Sept 10, 2018 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Southwest China's Guizhou province. FAST has discovered 44 new pulsars so far. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members work at a control center of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Southwest China's Guizhou province, Sept 10, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
A craftsman makes lacquerworks in Dafang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 10, 2018.
The making technique can only be get from experienced craftsman. Nowadays, local government has set up studios and introduced the artwork to online shops for the inheritance of the art. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Wei Deyou and his wife. (Photo provided to China Daily)
A wife, a radio and a herd of sheep are 78-year-old Wei Deyou's only companions on a vast, barren prairie called Sarbulak in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Stretching straight to the horizon, Sarbulak, near the border with Kazakhstan, has been Wei's home for most of his life because of a commitment he made 54 years ago.
Wei traveled to Xinjiang from Beijing in April 1964 with comrades in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to take on the mission of guarding the border.
There were many ways to fulfill the mission, but Wei picked herding livestock, tiresome work shunned by most others.
