Photos from across China

People brave the rain to visit the Palace Museum in Beijing on Aug 12. At 11 pm, the municipal meteorological station issued an orange alert, the second-highest level in the four-tiered warning system for storms. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]

A helicopter flies over Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River in Linfen, Shanxi province, on Aug 9. Hukou Waterfall reopened to tourists on Monday, after torrential rain hit the province that caused the river to flood. [Photo by Zhang Dan/For China Daily]

A ring-tailed lemur enjoys an ice pop in the sweltering summer heat at Yantai Zoo in Shandong province on Aug 10. [Photo by Tang Ke/For China Daily]

Yu Chunbo (left) reunites with her daughter after the girl received a liver transplant at the First Bethune Hospital of Jilin University in Changchun, Jilin province, on Aug 11. The 16-year-old girl had a liver tumor that could only be cured by a transplant, for which Yu donated a part of her organ. Funded with the help of public donations, the 14-hour surgery was successfully carried out in the hospital on Monday. [Photo by Jiang Shengsong/For China Daily]

A model wears a dress made of recycled newspapers on Aug 10 at an environmentally friendly fashion show in Taizhou, Jiangsu province. [Photo by Tang Dehong/For China Daily]

People enjoy floating in dinghies at a valley scenic area in Lushan, Henan province, on Aug 8. [Photo by Niu Shupei/For China Daily]