Feature: U.S. Midwestern city befriends China through literature

Novelist Nieh Hualing (3rd R, front) and participants of the International Writing Program pose for photos in the city of Iowa, Iowa, the United States on Sept. 17, 2018. Novelist Nieh Hualing, living in Iowa City for some five decades, has helped link the place with the image of lotus, which represents poetical peace and moral integrity in Chinese literature and has hence been widely adored in all ages. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)