Across America

Business discussion - Washington

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (center); Jack Ma (right), executive chairman of Alibaba Group; and Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, speak at the US-China Business Leaders Summit held on Tuesday at the US Commerce Department in Washington. About 20 Chinese and US business leaders took part in the talk. The meeting was held a day before the China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue chaired in Washington by Ross, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang. Chen Weihua / China Daily

Textile turnout - New York

Officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the opening of the 18th annual China Textile and Apparel Trade Show at the Javits Convention Center in New York: Xu Yingxin (fourth from left), vice-president of the China National Textile and Apparel Council; Zhang Qiyue (center), Chinese consul general in New York; Detlef Braun (fourth from right), a member of the executive Board of Messe Frankfurt; and Olaf Schmidt (third from right), vice-president of textiles and textile technologies at Messe Frankfurt. Amy He / China Daily

Trade talks - Buffalo, NY

Zhang Qiyue (fourth from right), consul general of China in New York; Howard Zemsky (to right of Zhang), commissioner of the New York State Department of Economic Development, and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (lto eft of Zhang) attend the Chinese Provinces-New York State Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum in Buffalo, New York on Tuesday. Provided to China Daily

Jack Ma calls for cooperation - Washington

Jack Ma (fourth from left), founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, speaks to the press after the inaugural US-China Business Leaders Summit in Washington on Tuesday. Ma said that entrepreneurs in China and the US should utilize their wisdom and capacity to solve trade issues rather than create troubles. Dong Leshuo / China Daily

Forum gathering - Bellevue, WA

From left: Andy Wilson, Washington State China Relations Council Chairman; Brian Bonlender, director of the state Department of Commerce; Cyrus Habib, lieutenant governor of Washington; Sun Chenghai, director general of trade development at China's Ministry of Commerce; and Yang Yihang, economic and commercial counsellor of China in San Francisco, all of whom spoke at the China Provinces and Washington State Trade and Investment Forum at the Westin Bellevue on Thursday. Linda Deng / China Daily

Flower power - San Francisco

Jay Xu (second from right), Asian Art Museum director, holds award presented by Michael Empric (second from left), Guinness World Records official adjudicator, for the record of the largest human flower, outside the museum on July 15. A total of 2,405 people gathered in San Francisco's Civic Center to form a giant lotus epitomizing serenity, incorruptibility and non-violence in the face of adversity.?City Assessor Carmen Chu (right) served as the official witness, and comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan (left) kept the crowd jazzed as the emcee. Lia Zhu / China Daily

Game of robotics - Washington

Students of Team China are practicing with one of their randomly assigned allies, Team Indonesia, to prepare for the final round of the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge (FGC) Tuesday in Washington. FGC is an annual robotics game set to address one of the pressing global issues starting with this year's water security issue. Yuan Yuan / For China Daily

Master strokes - Richardson, TX

Maw Chyuan Wang (left), a member of The American Association of Chinese Painters and Calligraphers in New York, demonstrates Chinese brush paintings at East Meets West - an exhibition at the Dallas Chinese Community Center on July 15. It was the fifth time the New York group visited Dallas; the exhibition will run until July 28. Liu Jingsheng / For China Daily

(China Daily USA 07/21/2017 page13)