Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said he expects military relations would become a major stabilizing factor in Sino-U.S. ties. Xi was meeting with Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the first senior military official to visit China since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.

Farmers sort bamboo shoots in Liuxiu Village of Shibeiping Town, Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 17, 2017. The bamboo shoots growers in the village are seeing a good harvest, thanks to the abundant rainfall this year.

Large harvesters and agriculture drones are busy working in paddy fields in Gushan Township of Xinyu City, east China’s Jiangxi, August 16, 2107. The paddy base achieved win-win result by cooperating with over1200 local farmers and leading to plant over 12,000 mu of high quality paddy.

The “China Qinghai Kunlun Mountain Worship Ceremony 2017” kicked off at the foot of the Yuzhu Peak in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, August 16, 2017. Over 200 scholars from Beijing, southwest China’s Sichuan province and east China’s Zhejiang Province attended the grand ceremony.

Actors perform a folk musical drama featuring daily life of local people of Tujia ethnic group at the Enshi National Grand Theater in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province.

Guo Gen, a local chef, prepares a dish with lobsters imported from Pakistan in Karamay City of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Delicacy on the local eaters' tables made of fish and crustaceans imported form the Pakistan market is highly demanded in the Chinese inland city that sometimes they are already sold out even before arrival.