Across America(Oct 27)
Beantown welcome - Boston Zhang Qiyue, consul general of China in New York, speaks at a China Day event in the Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Wednesday.Zhang Ruinan / China Daily |
Top honors - Washington Chiling Tong (in red dress), president and CEO of The Asian & Pacifi c Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship, was awarded Advocate of the Year by the Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency in Washington on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump (second from right) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (right) addressed the 15 honorees. Provided To China Daily |
Open forum - Washington Dennis Wilder (right), managing director of the Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, and J. Bradford Jensen, professor of economics and international business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, talk about China-US relations at a seminar in Georgetown on Tuesday ahead of the webcast of a China Town Hall. This year’s keynote speaker was Susan Rice, former US national security advisor. Chen Weihua / China Daily |
Global perspective - Washington Congressman James Moran (right), retired US representative from Virginia, is interviewed by Tony Culley-Foster (left), president and CEO of the World Aff airs Council, at the 2017 China Town Hall Monday evening in Washington.Yuan Yuan / For China Daily |
What's new - Rockville, MD Xu Tao, acclaimed Chinese voice actor, recites a modern poem as part of the “100 Years of New Poetry in China” gala, an event sponsored by the Ark Foundation, in Rockville, Maryland on Oct 14. The recital brought more than 10 vocal artists from China to present Chinese poems from the past 100 years. Lu Qiang / For China Daily |
Driver's seat - Sunnyvale, CA Jingao Wang, senior director of search engine Baidu’s intelligent driving group and head of the Apollo autonomous driving platform project, announces on Wednesday that Baidu would invest $1.5 billion in 100 autonomous driving projects over the next three years. Chang Jun / China Daily |
Child prodigy - Silver Spring, MD Artist Etian Huang, 9, from Paint Branch Montessori School in Silver Spring, Maryland, explains his work to visitors during his solo exhibit Imagine & Beyond on Oct 21. Infl uenced by his father, artist Shanye Huang, Etian has developed a style of his own, sometimes experimenting in painting with his toys. Etian had his fi rst solo exhibit when he was 5 years old and has participated in more than a dozen national and local group exhibits. More than 20 of his pieces are in public and private collections. Cai Chunying / China Daily |
Tuning in - Bellevue, WA Bellevue City Mayor John Stokes attends the 2017 fall tour show The Melodies of Love by Chinese painter Li Hongtao at Seattle’s WASA International Art Center on Oct 21. Linda Deng / China Daily |