Sabine Gross, a student of the Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, performs the Chinese folk song from Kangding during a ceremony welcoming visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Yandong. Liu is visiting the US for the 6th China-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange, which will officially kick off in Washington on June 23 by Liu and US Secretary of State John Kerry. Chen Weihua/China Daily