Across America

National Day and night

Luo Linquan (fourth from left), Chinese consul general in San Francisco, takes photo with organizing committee members of China Night, a long-running variety featuring themes celebrating China's National Day, on Sept 18 at Chabot College. Joining Luo is He Konghua (third from left), producer of the show and a renowned community leader and activist. Provided to China Daily

World of adventure

From left: Leigh Anne Brodsky, executive vice-president of Discovery Global Enterprises, Discovery Communications; Terence Chu, chairman of Discovery Adventures Moganshan Park; Zhang Meifang, China's deputy consul general in New York; Hong Yanyan, deputy mayor of Deqing County; Robert Marick; senior vice-president of Licensing & Global Location Based Entertainment, Discovery Communications attend the global launch ceremony of the world's first Discovery Adventures Pack, which is located in East China's Moganshan county, on Wednesday in Times Square in New York. Hong Xiao / China Daily

'Comfort women' lessons questioned

From left: Phyllis Kim, executive director of the Korean American Forum of California; Julie Tang, retired judge and co-chair of the Comfort Women Justice Coalition; Yong-Soo Lee, Korean "comfort woman" survivor; Lillian Sing, retired judge and co-chair of the Comfort Women Justice Coalition, and US Congressman Mike Honda of California, chair emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, attend a press conference on Sept 16 in San Jose, California. They demanded that the California State Board of Education remove a "misleading" link in its recently approved curriculum that includes teaching about the history of "comfort women" of the World War II era. Lia Zhu / China Daily

Trade talk

US Trade Representative Michael Froman (left) talks about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday as fellow speaker Senator Jeff Flake (center) of Arizona and moderator Derek Scissors, resident scholar of AEI, listen. Chen Weihua / China Daily

Business incubation

Huang Qinghui (fourth from left), head of Changping town in Dongguan, China, and Renton Mayor Denis Law (third from left) unveil the Changping International Innovation Hub and Greenyard International Incubation Hub at a ceremony in Renton on Tuesday. Linda Deng / China Daily

Cartoon escort

Stephen, a 6-year-old Chinese patient, is escorted by staffers at the MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center dressed up as his favorite Chinese cartoon characters GG Bond and Feifei to meet with medical staff on Tuesday in Houston. Stephen, diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma (a rare bone cancer), had gone through proton therapy and chemotherapy at MD Anderson from February to June this year. He was back in Houston with his parents for a checkup. May Zhou / China Daily

Reach for the sky

Chinese folk rock musician Su Yang (left) performs at the Modern Sky Festival 2016 on Governors Island in New York on Sept 17. As the leading music entertainment company on China's mainland, the festival was held for the first time in New York City in 2014, which marked its international expansion. Hong Xiao / China Daily

Perusing the paintings

Sarah Zuech, a junior Chinese major at the University of Maryland, finds traditional Chinese paintings from the Ink China calligraphy and painting exhibition on Wednesday at the university. The exhibition was part of the celebrations of the third Confucius Institute Day held by the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland. Yuan Yuan / FOR China Daily

(China Daily USA 09/23/2016 page13)