People are pictured inside a train of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) at Dhaka station, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 24, 2024.
With the first train decorated with colorful ribbons arriving at Dhaka station, Bangladesh's largest railway Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) officially opened across its entire line to traffic here Tuesday.
The PBRLP, one of the significant projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Bangladesh, was built by the China Railway Group Limited (CREC) and funded by the Export-Import Bank of China.
The railway, known locally as the "Dream Road," stretches approximately 170 km. Following its opening, travel time between the capital Dhaka and the southwestern city of Jashore will be reduced from the original 10 hours to just three hours. (Xinhua)
Tourists pose for a selfie at the bank of the Sayram Lake in Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)
A staff member performs a test run on a newly produced hydraulic robotic arm at the workshop of Zhejiang CathayBot Technology Co., Ltd. in Jinhua City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 24, 2024.
As the year-end approaches, high-tech enterprises producing automobile bearings, new materials, robots, and memory chips in Jinyi new district of Jinhua City are running at full capacity to ensure the delivery of orders on time. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
A molten iron fireworks show is staged at the square of the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Dec. 23, 2024. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang/Xinhua)
An American Airlines aircraft makes its final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Dec. 24, 2024.
American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide on Tuesday due to a technical issue just as the Christmas travel season kicks into overdrive and winter weather is threatening more potential problems for those planning to fly or drive in the United States. American flights were cleared to fly by federal regulators about one hour after a national ground stop order was issued by the Federal Aviation Administration. (Xinhua/Hu Yousong)
People take photos at a Chinese lantern show in Panama City, Panama, Dec. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Haoquan)
A passenger poses for photos with a high-speed electrical multiple unit (EMU) train on the platform of Karawang Station of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in West Java, Indonesia, Dec. 24, 2024.
Karawang Station, a key stop on the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR), was officially inaugurated on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
Palestinian children are seen in front of a garbage dump in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 24, 2024. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo shows fire captain Shu Jianjun (L) patrolling with his colleague Xie Xiaoqiang in Hongcun Village of Yixian County in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Dec. 19, 2024.
Listed as World Cultural Heritage Sites, Xidi and Hongcun are two renowned villages in east China's Anhui Province. With exquisite homes, ancestral halls and memorial archways, Hui-style buildings of Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) are widely found here. To protect these two villages, people from various walks of life contribute in their own ways, such as fire captain Shu Jianjun and ancestral hall conservator Hu Xiaowen who are dedicated to preserving and passing on those cultural heritages. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
