San Francisco

Justice be done

Lillian Sing (left) and Julie Tang, both retired judges and co-chairs of Comfort Women Justice Coalition, call on the California State Board of Education to remove a misleading link of the Japanese-South Korean agreement in the new curriculum that includes teaching about 'comfort women', at a press conference on Sept 16 in San Jose, California. Lia Zhu/ China Daily

High energy

From left: Jeffrey Ball, scholar-in-residence at the Stanford Center for Energy Policy and Finance; Hillard Huntington, executive director of Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University; Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate and former US Secretary of Energy; Douglas Hengel, senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund; Mikkal Herberg, research director of Asian Energy Security at the National Bureau of Asian Research, hold a panel discussion at the 2016 US-China New Energy Economy Forum held on Wednesday in San Francisco. Lia Zhu/ China Daily

High fliers

Dancers present a dazzling traditional dance at the Chinese National Day Celebration gala organized by the Preparatory Committee of the Chinese National Day of Silicon Valley on Sept 18 in Hayward. Chang Jun / China Daily

Out of exile

China's former Minister of Culture Wang Meng speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on Sept 12 about his new memoir My 16-Year Exile in Xinjiang. Wang spent 16 years in rural western China during the culture revolution. Provided To China Daily

(China Daily USA 09/23/2016 page14)