Thousands of young Chinese take part in the September Color Run in Shanghai. The event, held in various cities across China throughout the year, is a 5-kilometer paint race that "celebrates healthiness, happiness, and individuality," according to the organization's website.
Gaokao candidates review for the coming national college entrance exam at Nanchang No. 2 High School in Jiangxi province days before the exam. On June 7 and 8, nearly 9.4 million students took the test.
A worker moves crocks for brewing Shaoxing rice wine at brewery in Shaoxing. The yellow wine is traditionally brewed during the winter months.
In a tribute to ping-pong diplomacy, First Lady Michelle Obama plays table tennis during a visit to Beijing Normal School (also known as the 2nd High School Attached to Beijing Normal University), an elite high school, some of whose graduates go on to attend university abroad. Obama’s weeklong visit to China focused on educational and cultural exchange.
Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping drink a toast at a lunch banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during the APEC meetings this year. The two leaders surprised many when they announced a wide-ranging climate agreement.
Mourners burn paper money and incense at the scene of a knife attack at the main train station in Kunming, Yunnan province. Chinese police blamed Uighur separatists. Both Beijing and Washington have described the attack in Kunming which killed 29 people and injured 143 as terrorism.
Heads of state join hands as they pose for a photograph at the start of the 24th ASEAN summit at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyidaw on May 11, 2014. Southeast Asian leaders gathered for a historic summit in Myanmar amid soaring tensions in the South China Sea and growing fears over Beijing’s territorial claims.
A member of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama’s security detail shakes hands with a Chinese policeman as he stands beside a man wearing an ancient Chinese warrior costume during Obama’s visit to the City Wall on March 24, 2014 in Xi’an. Michelle Obama’s one-week-long visit in China focused on educational and cultural exchanges.
Mixed martial arts fighters, from left, He Nannan, Li Peng, Wu Haotian, Chao Lumen, and Hu Rige stand outside the house they share in Beijing. They are among China’s growing ranks of MMA fighters. Many hope to punch their way out of poverty by reaching the sport’s higher levels.
Relatives of 71-year-old matriarch He Guixiu react as her body is found in the rubble of a house that collapsed in a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Longtoushan, Yunnan province. The mountainside village was devastated by the tremors: at least 398 people died, 80,000 houses were destroyed, and 124,000 others were seriously damaged.
