View of giant karst sinkhole in Hubei

22:29, October 10, 2020

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  Moments of the week (10/5-10/11)

  Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for their discoveries about the black hole, one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Tuesday. (photo: Xinhua)Dancers perform during a gala in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Qamdo, in Qamdo City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Thursday. (Photo: Xinhua)Visitors look at the installation Distortions in Spacetime from Marshmallow Laser Feast at the Nxt museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Thursday. (Photo: Xinhua)Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after winning the men's singles semifinal match against Diego Schwartzman of Argentina at the French Open tennis tournament 2020 at Roland Garros in Paris, France, on Friday. (Photo: Xinhua)A swarm of desert locusts fly in the air in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 9, 2020. Swarms of desert locusts invaded Yemen's capital Sanaa on Friday. (Photo: Xinhua)The photo shows the autumn scenery of the forest of populus euphratica, commonly known as desert poplar, in Dunhuang City, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo: China News Service)Empty chairs sit on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Monday. Twenty thousand empty chairs were set up near the White House on Sunday to mourn the more than 200,000 lives lost in United States from COVID-19. (Photo: Xinhua)Models present creations by French fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on Tuesday. (Photo: Xinhua)Customers enjoy the meals at a hot pot restaurant in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday. People across China enjoy various delicacies during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

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  Giant thangka painting of pandas exhibited in Southwest China’s Chengdu

  The world’s only giant thangka painting of pandas is on exhibit at the Sichuan Provincial Library in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The painting was created by over forty thangka masters in Sichuan’s Aba Autonomous Prefecture for a year. (Photos: Chinanews.com; compiled by Huang Yuzhang)The whole painting is 142 meters long and 1.6 meters high. More than 600 pandas are painted on the scroll, which represents the volume of pandas kept in captivity across the globe as of December 2019. As the world’s largest thangka scroll featuring pandas, the painting showcases both the glamor of pandas as China’s national treasure and the local culture of Aba Autonomous Prefecture.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Photo shows some of the pandas in the painting.Visitors are enjoying the painting.Visitors are enjoying the painting.

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  Qingdao launches a city-wide nucleic acid test

  Photo shows the Hong Kong Road, Shinan District of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, at 8 pm on October 11. Six confirmed cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Qingdao as of Sunday night, the municipal health commission said, adding that six asymptomatic cases had also been detected.Photo shows the Shaoxing Road, Shinan District of Qingdao, at 11 pm on October 11.Photo shows Qingdao Chest Hospital on the evening of Oct. 11. New confirmed cases come after the discovery of three asymptomatic cases on early Sunday associated with the Qingdao Chest Hospital, which has set up independent areas for treating COVID-19 cases from overseas.Photo shows netizens’ comments about the nucleic acid test in Qingdao on the People's Daily APP. (Photos: People's Daily APP, compiled by An Bowen)

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  Fighting poverty with firm vision and action

  A nomadic family on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau shares in the joy of one of its members after an operation to correct blindness, with funds that Laurence Brahm helped to raise. CHINA DAILY US social entrepreneur lauds Chinese poverty alleviation achievements that he says set them apart from mea