Visitors look at paintings during an exhibition of artworks by Arabic artists in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 1, 2013. A total of 15 artists from 13 Arab countries and regions participated in the exhibition and demonstrated their views of Xinjiang through artworks. [Xinhua/Wang Fei]

First-graders display their writing of Chinese character "Ren" (which means human in English) during the first writing ceremony at Fuzimiao, or the Confucius Temple, in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, Sept. 1, 2013. In total 370 first-graders of Fuzimiao elementary school in Nanjing participated in the first writing ceremony Sunday. The ceremony is a traditional education activity for children in China. [Xinhua/Sun Can]