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Updated: 2015-10-23 11:35

(China Daily USA)

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Lang Lang visits school - New York

Pianist Lang Lang (fi fth from left) unveils the music program Keys of Inspiration with other guests at a ribboncutting ceremony at the Roberto Clemente Public School 13 in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday. Keys of Inspiration is a three-year public school partnership program, which will serve as a model for urban public school music programs across the US. It was initiated and is operated by the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.Hong Xiao / For China Daily

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Talk of friendship - Chicago

Xie Yuan, vice-president of The Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, speaks on Thursday evening at the 2015 US-China Sister Cities Conference welcome reception held at the Field Museum in Chicago. Over 100 delegates from China and the US are attending the conference from Oct 22 to 23 celebrating Chicago's 30th anniversaries with sister cities Shanghai and Shenyang. Hezi Jiang / China Daily

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Sustaining cities - Washington

From left: Samuel Tumiwa, deputy director of the North American Representative Offi ce at the Asian Development Bank; Kamran Khan, vice-president of the department of compact operations at Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US government foreign aid agency; Ian Laski, general manager of Asia Pacifi c infrastructure at Bechtel, the largest construction and civil engineering company in the US; and Riz Khaliq, director of marketing and communications at IBM discuss how to drive sustainable urbanization in Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Wednesday. Pan Jialiang / For China Daily

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Reviewing the state visit - Washington

From left: Kurt Campbell, former US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacifi c Aff airs; Demetri Sevastopulo, Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times; Bob Schieff er, the CBS network's chief Washington correspondent; and Christopher Johnson, senior adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies discuss China-US relations after President Xi Jinping's recent US visit. Zhang Yue / China Daily

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Celebrating ancestry - San Francisco

Offi cers from the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco and representatives from various Chinese-American associations in the Bay Area gather for a group picture at the Overseas Chinese Ancestor Worship Ceremony press conference in San Francisco on Oct 18. Zhenkun Xu / China Daily

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Paintings support cultural interaction - San Francisco

Xiao Xiayong (third from right), cultural counselor at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, attends the exhibition “No Room for Form” on Oct 17 at the San Francisco International Art Center. The exhibition displays a collection of paintings by four contemporary artists - Ming Ren, Fred Martin, David Frazer and Jeremy Morgan - recipients of multiple national and international awards. Xiao said cultural interaction does not simply mean exchanging artistic techniques, but should be a deep understanding of people diff erent from ourselves and inspire a new way of looking at the world. Chang Jun / China Daily

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Tai chi day - Washington

Tai chi lovers perform the internal martial art with the Washington Monument in the background in Washington on Oct 18. Around 100, 000 tai chi practitioners around the globe, including from 20 cities in China, performed tai chi at the same time. The activity was to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of the Cultural Expression.Zhang Yue / China Daily

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