Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a welcome banquet in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2023. Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a welcome ceremony and a welcome banquet on Thursday evening for Central Asian leaders and their wives attending the China-Central Asia Summit. After the banquet, Xi, Peng and the guests watched an art performance, which marks the opening of the year of culture and art of the peoples of China and Central Asia as well as the China-Central Asia youth arts festival. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)