Chinese President Xi Jinping, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), on Friday awarded the Order of Bayi to 10 military officers and conferred a flag to a military company ahead of the Army Day, which falls on Aug. 1.

A grand gala was held in Beijing on Friday evening in celebration of the 90th birthday of the Chinese People's Liberation Army(PLA).

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, South African Minister of State Security David Mahlobo, Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and Brazilian Institutional Security Minister Sergio Etchegoyen attend the seventh meeting of BRICS High Representatives for Security Issues in Beijing, capital of China, July 28, 2017.

Hot air balloons are seen before taking off during the 2017 Mondial Air Balloons festival in Chambrey-Bussieres, France, on July 28, 2017. A total of 456 hot air balloons took to the sky here on Friday morning, setting the new world record for the greatest number of balloons aligned.

Photo taken on July 27, 2017 shows the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River on the border area between north China's Shanxi and northwest China's Shaanxi provinces. The annual maximum peak of Hukou Waterfall was seen on Thursday due to heavy rainfall.

Over 30 Burundian young men wearing training clothes donated by the Chinese embassy in Burundi were doing Chinese martial arts in the school. They were led by Chinese teacher Zhang Xuguang, associate professor of the University of International Business and Economics of China.