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Energy summit - Santa Clara, Ca

From left: Xiaofeng Zhang, executive vice-president of US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC); Rong Zeng, director of the Energy Research Institute of Tsinghua University; Dian Grueneich, senior research scholar of Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University; Peng Fang, president and CEO of GCL New Energy Inc; Robert Wu, chairman of UCGEC; and Dinghuan Shi, president of China Renewable Energy Society, attend the 2016 Energy Summit in Santa Clara, California on July 15, which attracted around 100 experts from China and the US. Lia Zhu / China Daily

Launch site - Santa Clara, Ca

Wilma Pang (front row, second from left), founder of A Better Chinatown Tomorrow, and Joanna Zhang (front row,third from left), founder and president of the San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival, join other representatives at a news conference for the launch of the 2016 film season on July 20 in San Francisco Chinatown. Congjiang Wang / For China Daily

Connecting circuits - Santa Clara, Ca

Chinese Consul General to San Francisco Luo Linquan exchanges ideas with the former US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at the US-China Green Energy Summit, organized by US-China Green Energy Council and other interest groups on July 15 in Santa Clara, California. Provided To China Daily

New light - Gilroy, Ca

Members of the San Francisco Huaxing Art Group perform Chinese martial arts at the opening ceremony of Lumination: Chinese Culture Celebrated in a Whole New Light, a Gilroy gardens family theme park, on July 15 in Gilroy, California. Provided To China Daily

(China Daily USA 07/22/2016 page14)