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CHINA-BEIJING-SHOUGANG-GERMANY-RUHR-TRANSFORMATION

(230830) -- BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This file photo taken on Sept. 17, 2012 shows people watching night view during a light festival at the Shougang Park in Shijingshan District of Beijing, capital of China. From the Ruhr area in Germany to the Shougang industrial park in Beijing, one after another steel "giants" stand as witnesses to the development process of human civilization. The Ruhr area in Germany is a significant industrial zone in Europe, once a coal and steel production hub for Germany. The Zollverein coal mine industrial complex in Essen was one of the world's largest coal mines from the late 19th to the early 20th century. With Germany's transition in energy industry, the Zollverein coal mine industrial complex ceased operation completely in 1993. This exemplary modern industrial structure subsequently transformed into an arts and cultural center. In 2001, the Zollverein coal mine industrial complex was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded in 1919, Shougang, meaning "

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Visitors to Tokyo Skytree complex top 100 million

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to the Tokyo Skytree commercial complex pose for a commemorative photo as their number exceeded 100 million on Sept. 17, 2014, following its opening in May 2012. It was the 849th day since the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters opened on May 22, 2012, in Tokyo's Sumida Ward.

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Copts, Muslims hold joint press conference

LOS ANGELES, United States - Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Serapion (C front) speaks during a joint press conference with the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Sweden Academy leader

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden Academy Permanent Secretary Peter Englund speaks in Stockholm on Sept. 17, 2012, on the selections of the Nobel Prize in literature.

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Nuclear weapons-free Mongolia

NEW YORK, United States - Envoys from the five nuclear nations sign a joint declaration supporting Mongolia as a nuclear weapons-free nation at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK, United States - Participants march in New York on Sept. 17, 2012, marking the first anniversary of the launch of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

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Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK, United States - A man (C) is arrested by the police in New York on Sept. 17, 2012, during a rally marking the first anniversary of the launch of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

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Muslims protesting U.S. film clash with police in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Protesters throw stones at the police in front of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Sept. 17, 2012, in a protest over a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad and made in the United States.

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Man throws smoke bombs into Chinese consulate general in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police examine an area near the Chinese Consulate General (back) in the city of Fukuoka where a man threw two smoke bombs on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Simultaneous shogi, chess games

KOBE, Japan - Japanese shogi master Yoshiharu Habu (L) and French chess master Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (R) play shogi (front) and chess (back) games simultaneously during an event in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 17, 2012. Habu won in shogi and Vachier-Lagrave won in chess.

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U.S. defense chief in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto (4th from front in R) meet at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012. (Pool photo)

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IAEA conference

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano speaks as the U.N. nuclear watchdog's annual conference begins in Vienna on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (R) and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto hold a press conference after their talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Powerful typhoon hits Kyushu

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2012, shows the empty international terminal at Hakata port in the city of Fukuoka, where all sailings were cancelled due to the season's 16th typhoon which brought powerful winds and heavy rain to the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu.

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (R) and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto shake hands after their press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012.

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (far L) and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto (2nd from R) hold talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Powerful typhoon hits Kyushu

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2012, shows a rail track at JR Nagasaki Station in the city of Nagasaki, temporarily flooded by the season's 16th typhoon which brought heavy rain to the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu.

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (2nd from L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (3rd from R) hold talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (L) and Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto stand together prior to their talks at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Panetta in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (R) and Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba shake hands prior to their talks at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Anti-Japan protest in China

BEIJING, China - People stage a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase on Sept. 11 of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them. Anti-Japan demonstrations have taken place in Beijing for seven consecutive days since Japan's nationalization of the islets.

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Quake-tsunami debris incinerated in Kitakyushu

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Photo shows waste including debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at an incineration plant in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2012. Incineration of the debris began at the facility that day.

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Anti-Japan protest in China

BEIJING, China - People stage a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 17, 2012, to protest Japan's purchase on Sept. 11 of three islets of the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, called the Diaoyu Islands in China which claims them. Anti-Japan demonstrations have taken place in Beijing for seven consecutive days since Japan's nationalization of the islets.

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Suu Kyi at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi passes through Narita airport outside Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2012, en route to the United States from Yangon.

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CHINA-ANHUI-HEFEI-CHAOHU LAKE-CHANGES (CN)

(220921) -- HEFEI, Sept. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows a view of a wetland around the Chaohu Lake on Sept. 6, 2022 (upper, Xinhua/Liu Junxi) and trees at the bank of the Chaohu Lake in Hefei City, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 17, 2012 (Photo by He Xibin/Xinhua). As the fifth-largest freshwater lake in China, Chaohu Lake is known as the "kidney" of the Yangtze River. In recent years, Hefei City, where Chaohu Lake is located, has taken a slew of measures to strengthen the protection of wetlands around the lake, including banning fishing, land reclamation and waste dumping in designated protected zones. Changes are happening around this freshwater lake, with more rare and endangered species inhabiting its surrounding wetlands. (Xinhua)

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Japan mourns death of "father of Japanese soccer" Cramer

File photo taken in March 2012 shows Dettmar Cramer posing for a photo with gifts from Japan at his home in Reit im Winkl in Germany. Cramer, dubbed "the father of Japanese soccer" for helping develop the game as a coach in the country in the 1960s, passed away on Sept. 17, 2015, aged 90. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo