Students participate in a first aid drill during a safety education session in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
A damaged vehicle is seen after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Dec. 26, 2024. The Israeli army killed five Palestinian journalists on Thursday after attacking their vehicle in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian sources. (Photo by Marwan Dawood/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Dec. 26, 2024 shows the restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls dating back to one million years ago at the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. The restored statues were unveiled by the Hubei Provincial Museum on Thursday.
Two sets of ancient fossil human skulls were unearthed in 1989 and 1990 in Hubei Province. In 1994, paleoanthropologist Jia Lanpo named the fossils "Yunxian Man" after the location where they were excavated.
The analysis concluded that the fossils belonged to Homo erectus and are roughly one million years old, and they were from a male and a female aged between 25 and 45. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Sun Minghui (front R) of Zhejiang Lions vies with Li Weihao of Sichuan Blue Whales during a match at the 2024-2025 season of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
An aerial drone photo shows a train passing through the Yuandang Lake section of the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway on Dec. 26, 2024. A newly constructed high-speed railway began operations on Thursday, enhancing the rail network connecting major cities in east China's Yangtze River Delta Region, a key economic powerhouse of the country.
With a designed speed of 350 km per hour and eight stations, the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway spanning 164 km links Shanghai Hongqiao Station with the city of Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province and Huzhou City in Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
A man walks past a store with a Boxing Day promotion sign in Toronto, Canada, on Dec. 26, 2024. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)
This aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 26, 2024 shows a container vessel loaded with Chilean cherries docking at a container terminal of Tianjin Port in north China's Tianjin.
A container vessel loaded with about 8,000 tonnes of Chilean cherries arrived at Tianjin Port on Thursday, marking the arrival of the first shipment of Chilean cherries in northern China this winter.
A total of four vessels carrying over 1,500 containers of Chilean cherries are scheduled to arrive Tianjin in succession this winter, more than triple the amount compared to the previous cherry season. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 20, 2024 shows a view of the Yangluo Port in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Major ports on the Yangtze, China's longest river, are expected to post a total throughput of 4.02 billion tonnes of cargo this year, breaking the mark of 4 billion tonnes for the first time, according to navigation authorities. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
People take the subway line 8 in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 26, 2024. The newly-opened line 8, the first subway loop line with 37 stations in Xi'an, brought the length of the city's metro system to over 400 km. (Xinhua/Zou Jingyi)
