Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor addresses the audience at the opening ceremony, Sept 22, 2018. Edmond Tang / China Daily
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and Governor of Guangdong province Ma Xingrui will set off on a tour in the West Kowloon Station after the ceremony.
Lam and Ma will board a Vibrant Express train, to ride the rails to Guangzhou South Station, a journey covering the full length of the 141 km XRL between Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Carrie Lam leaves Hong Kong West Kowloon Station for Guangzhou South Station on the Vibrant Express train after attending the opening ceremony for Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong" High Speed Rail (Hong Kong Section) held at the West Kowloon Station Saturday. [Provided to China Daily]
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's Chief Executive Carrie Lam (first row, first left) and the Governor of Guangdong province Ma Xingrui (first row, second left), and other guests take a Vibrant Express train from Hong Kong's West Kowloon Station to Guangzhou South Station on Saturday. [Provided to China Daily]
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (first left) arrives at Guangzhou South Station after travelling on the Vibrant Express train on Saturday.[Provided to China Daily]
Carrie Lam (second right), Ma Xingrui (second left) and other guests are received by the Mayor of Guangzhou Wen Guohui (first left) at Guangzhou South station. [Provided to China Daily]
Students learn to make mooncakes at Nanguan primary school to greet the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 21, 2018. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or Sept. 24 this year. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
Children assisted by an African university student learn to make mooncakes at Shijixing kindergarten to greet the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in Tangshan City, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 21, 2018.(Xinhua/Yang Shiyao)
Children learn to make mooncakes at a kindergarten to greet the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in Gucheng County, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 21, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)
Staff make traditional moon cakes at a food processing workshop in Zhangye, northwest China's Gansu Province, on Sept. 18, 2018. Making traditional moon cakes before the Mid-Autumn Festival dates back to a thousand years in Zhangye. (Xinhua/Wang Jiang)
A contestant makes Lamian (hand-pulled noodles) during a contest in Haidong City, Northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Sept. 18, 2018. Nearly 200 contestants from 60 teams from across the nation participated in the Lamian skills contest, where they competed to make five versions of Lamian in different thicknesses. (Photo: China News Service/Ma Mingyan)
A farmer in the town of Matou in Tancheng county, Shandong province weathers spring corn on Aug 30. Called the granary of south Shandong, Tancheng county hosts more than 6,600 hectares of spring corn. (Pand Dehua/For China Daily)
Local people catch a duck to celebrate harvest in Qinglong Village of Huayuan County, central China's Hunan Province, Sept. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Long Enze)
A worker holds the newly-harvested rice crops during a harvesting competition held by Suibin farm in Hegang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Hongjun)
Pupils of Sijing No.2 Primary School learn to make dough figurines in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 21, 2018. A series of activities were held in the Shanghai Big World on Friday to show young people's practice of intangible cultural heritages. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
Pupils learn to operate the traditional shuttle loom in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 21, 2018. A series of activities were held in the Shanghai Big World on Friday to show young people's practice of intangible cultural heritages. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
Students of Shanghai United International School Shangyin Campus perform Beijing opera in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 21, 2018. A series of activities were held in the Shanghai Big World on Friday to show young people's practice of intangible cultural heritages. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People put lotus-shaped lanterns into the Babao River in Guangnan County of Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 21, 2018. A lantern festival was held here to greet the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or Sept. 24 this year. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou)
Passengers take photos of G5711, the first high-speed train from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, at Shenzhen North Railway Station in Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 23, 2018. G5711 train left Shenzhen North Railway Station at 6:44 Beijing Time on Sunday (1044 GMT Saturday) for West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, marking the opening of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway and that of the whole Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
A villager husks wheat grains in Beisanjia Village of Aohan Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 22, 2018. China will mark its first Farmers' Harvest Festival on Sept. 23 this year. From 2018 on, the festival, to be celebrated on the Autumnal Equinox each year, is set to be observed annually to greet the harvest season and honour the agricultural workers. (Xinhua/Yu Dongsheng)
A villager prepares steamed pastries for a harvest party in Peiligang Village of Xinzheng, central China's Henan Province, Sept. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Li An)
A woman from the Miao ethnic group prepares crops for a harvest-praying ceremony in Wuji Village of Anchui Township in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 22, 2018. . (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)
A farmer prepares harvested red dates for air-drying in Mengjiazhuang Village of Zaoqiang Township in Zaoqiang County, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Xiaoguo)
A villager loads harvested corn onto a truck in Beisanjia Village of Aohan Banner in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sept. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Yu Dongsheng)
