Black-necked cranes, a species under first-class state protection in China, fly at sunrise at Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve in Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 1, 2024. (Photo by Zeng Sandong/Xinhua)
Passengers are pictured at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 26, 2024, the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)
A staff member of a protection station under the management bureau of Sanjiangyuan National Park is pictured with a rescued Tibetan antelope cub in Hoh Xil, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Jan. 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Hongxiang)
Rescuers work at the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 23, 2024. The landslide occurred in Liangshui Village at about 6 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
Police officers climb up a steep slope hand in hand during their patrol on the Heixiazi Island, a Sino-Russian border island, in Fuyuan, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Since March 30, 2012, China has normalized public security management on the China's part of the island. (Xinhua/Chen Yichen)
A worker views the rising moon at a platform of the Chengbei Oilfield in north China's Bohai Bay, Jan. 24, 2024. Put into operation in 1985, the Chengbei Oilfield is China's first modern offshore oilfield constructed in full accordance with international procedures and standards. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying the Tianxing-1 02 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Jan. 11, 2024. The satellite was launched at 11:52 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Haixia/Xinhua)
A mother holding her sleeping baby in arms waits for their train at Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 26, 2024, the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)
Criminal suspects escorted by Chinese police officers are pictured on a charter flight to China, Jan. 30, 2024. The Myanmar police handed six key leaders of Kokang telecom fraud gangs and four other major criminal suspects over to China on Jan. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)
A man has his forehead touch his girlfriend's as he picks up her at a railway station in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 5, 2024, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)
A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the baby's footprint at a hospital in Yuping Dong Autonomous County of Tongren, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 10, 2024, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day. (Photo by Hu Panxue/Xinhua)
Monks prepare to uncover the large yellow curtain on a huge Thangka painting bearing the image of the Buddha during a grand Tibetan Buddhist event, known as the "sunning of the Buddha" ceremony, held at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Gansu Province, Feb. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)
Deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) leave the Great Hall of the People after the closing meeting of the second session of the 14th NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
A horse tamer holding his daughter rides a horse at a tourism attraction in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)
Tourists have fun at a historic and cultural block in Anshun, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 10, 2024, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day. (Photo by Chen Xi/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Feb. 7, 2024 shows the launch ceremony of the China's Qinling Station in Antarctica. China's Qinling Station in Antarctica, the country's fifth research station in the continent, started operation on Feb. 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhou Yuan)
A maintenance worker checks the vault of the Laohugou Tunnel in Huangyuan County of Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Feb. 6, 2024. Maintenance workers here have to carry out deicing work to ensure safe operation of trains in this tunnel, where the average altitude reaches 3,100 meters, to address the potential danger due to low temperature in winter. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
A man visits the new building of Yinxu Museum in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 26, 2024. The new building officially opened to the public on Feb. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Li An)
People attend a "Wulong Xuhua" show, a kind of festive dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group, in Taijiang County of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Local villagers take a train of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 4 to sell their home-grown vegetables and fruits to urbanites in southwest China's Chongqing, March 27, 2024. The Rail Transit Line 4 in Chongqing is nicknamed the "pack basket line" for bringing convenience to local villagers who travel to sell their agricultural products in urban areas. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
A Macao citizen (in red clothes), who was the first passenger to complete customs clearance after a new customs operation became effective in the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone, speaks to the media at Hengqin port, south China's Guangdong Province, March 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)
This photo taken on March 20, 2024 shows an overpass at sunrise in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
A couple read their wedding vows written in Braille at the marriage registration center in Xicheng District of Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2024. It was the first time for China to provide Braille version of documents for marriage registration for visually impaired people. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
Firefighters extinguish a forest fire that erupted on March 15, 2024, in Yajiang County of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 21, 2024. (Photo by Cheng Xueli/Xinhua)
The 76-year-old Shi Rongsheng wipes his tears while paying tributes to his father, Shi Wanzhong, at the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs' cemetery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 3, 2024. The senior Shi was a CPV soldier killed during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953).
Through artifact identification, social investigations, military history research, and DNA comparisons, the remains of senior Shi were confirmed in January 2024.
Since 2014, China and the Republic of Korea (ROK), in accordance with international laws and humanitarian principles, have completed 11 consecutive handovers of the remains of 981 CPV martyrs who died in the ROK. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
A staff member of the Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. works at the construction site of Tanggu offshore platform in north China's Tianjin, May 1, 2024. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
A boat returns to the China Coast Guard vessel Huayang after a drill in the waters of China's Ren'ai Jiao, May 1, 2024. During this round of patrol task in the waters of China's Ren'ai Jiao, the law enforcers on Huayang and other China Coast Guard vessels worked firmly safeguarding China's territorial sea. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Rescuers work at the site of an expressway collapse on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, May 2, 2024. At about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, 2024, a landslide occurred in the Chayang section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Guangdong Province, causing multiple casualties. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)
Rangers keep warm by burning dung of wild yak at a camp during a patrol of the core areas at the Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, May 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
A woman visits an installation during the 20th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, May 24, 2024. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
Farmers harvest wheat in the fields in Wulou Village in Shangshui County of Zhoukou, central China's Henan Province, May 25, 2024. (Photo by Gao Jianzhong/Xinhua)
Tourists view a white whale at Sunasia Ocean World in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Lei)
A red-crowned crane guards its chick and egg at Zhalong National Nature Reserve in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 7, 2024. The reserve, dubbed the "home of red-crowned cranes" in China, serves as the world's largest habitat and reproduction base for wild red-crowned cranes. (Photo by Wang Yonggang/Xinhua)
A C919 jetliner flying from the Hong Kong International Airport receives a ceremonial water salute on its arrival at the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, east China, June 1, 2024. The C919 jetliner kicked off its first overseas commercial chartered flight on June 1, 2024, providing a round-trip service between Shanghai and Hong Kong. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
A technician tests a piece of material at a workshop of Suzhou photoelectric technology research institute in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, June 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Ga)
Tourists visit an experience hall of Meishan Iron and Steel industrial cultural tourism zone in Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
Visitors look at a bronzeware at the Qin Han Museum of the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on July 3, 2024 shows Shenzhou-18 astronaut Li Cong going out for extravehicular activities. (Xinhua/Guo Zhongzheng)
Student representatives attend a ceremony marking the 87th anniversary of the beginning of China's whole-nation resistance war against Japanese aggression at the Museum of the War of the Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, capital of China, July 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
A sea-borne variant of commercial rocket CERES-1 blasts off from the waters surrounding east China's Shandong Province, May 29, 2024. China on May 29, 2024 sent a sea-launched rocket into space, placing a group of four satellites into planned orbit. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted this offshore mission. (Photo by Xie Jixiao/Xinhua)
A tourist walks towards a blooming azalea tree at the Wawu Mountain scenic spot in Hongya County of Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Participants chat outside the Dalian International Conference Center, venue of the 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, June 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Yao Jianfeng)
This combo photo shows a portrait of Li Deren in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 13, 2024 (above) and Xue Qikun standing on stairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, capital of China, June 17, 2024 (below). Li Deren and Xue Qikun won the national top sci-tech award for the year 2023 during the national science and technology award conference held in Beijing on June 24, 2024. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi, Jin Liwang)
Pregnant Tibetan antelopes are pictured at sunset in Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, June 16, 2024. The total population of Tibetan antelopes, a species in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under first-class state protection, has exceeded 300,000, over 200,000 of which are living in Changtang National Nature Reserve. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)
A visitor touches the fingers of a robot at the World Intelligence Expo 2024 in north China's Tianjin, June 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Ran)
Rescuers transfer residents trapped in flood-affected areas in Daxi Village of Pingjiang County of Yueyang, central China's Hunan Province, July 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
Tourists from Italy pose for a group photo after practicing Tai Chi at the Tiantan Park (Temple of Heaven) in Beijing, capital of China, July 9, 2024. A series of policies facilitating personnel exchanges between China and other countries, including the visa-free transit policy, have fueled a surge in international arrivals. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Rescue personnel successfully seal a 226-meter dike breach at Dongting Lake in Yueyang, central China's Hunan Province, July 8, 2024. A dike breach occurred on July 5, 2024 at Dongting Lake due to persistent heavy rain across the province. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)
Researchers prepare to weigh Chang'e-6 lunar samples during a returner opening ceremony at the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation in Beijing, capital of China, June 26, 2024. China's Chang'e-6 mission collected 1,935.3 grams of samples from the far side of the moon. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
A soldier takes an oath to the flag of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the CPC at a border defense station under the Xizang military command, June 29, 2024. (Photo by Zuo Yu/Xinhua)
Meng Rongda (rear) and his students walk out of the classroom at Zhongzhai teaching site in Xishan Township of Congjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 6, 2024. Meng has been working as a teacher, cook and caretaker at the teaching site for years in the landlocked mountainous area, devoting himself to rural children. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
The Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Oct. 30, 2024. China on Oct. 30, 2024 successfully launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)
A worker paints the wall of the Potala Palace during an annual renovation of the ancient architectural complex in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Oct. 30, 2024. The paint is made from a blend of milk, honey, sugar, saffron and lime, which gives the paint a sticky quality that helps it adhere to the ancient walls, providing much-needed protection. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Tourists watch a rainbow over the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River in Jixian County, north China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 4, 2024. (Photo by Lyu Guiming/Xinhua)
Soldiers escort coffins containing the remains of Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs at the Taoxian international airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Nov. 28, 2024. The remains of 43 CPV soldiers who lost their lives during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953) were returned to China from the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Nov. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jie)
Workers collect ice from the Songhua River for scenery building at tourist attractions in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
Members of China's 41st Antarctic expedition team and penguins are pictured while China's research icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2 are carrying out unloading operations surrounding Zhongshan Station, a Chinese research base in Antarctica, Dec. 8, 2024. (Xinhua/Huang Taoming)
A herdsman herds horses on snow-covered grassland in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilingol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)
People pose for photos at the Senado Square in south China's Macao, Dec. 20, 2024. Macao marked the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland on Dec. 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)
A skiing rescuer works at an international ski resort in Hemu of Altay Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 3, 2024. The occupation of skiing rescuer is among the new occupations announced by China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in 2024. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel along the Urumqi-Yuli Expressway completes tunneling in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 30, 2024. The tunnel, a key project of the Urumqi-Yuli Expressway, will reduce the time it takes to drive across the middle section of the Tianshan Mountains from several hours to about 20 minutes once operational. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
This photo shows the CR450AF bullet train in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 29, 2024. Prototypes of the CR450 bullet train, with a test speed of up to 450 kilometers per hour and an operational speed of 400 kilometers per hour, were debuted in Beijing on Dec. 29, 2024, highlighting China's cutting-edge advancements in rail technology and contributions to the global rail industry. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Rescuers remove fallen branches blocking a road in Chengmai County, south China's Hainan Province, Sept. 7, 2024. Yagi, the 11th typhoon of the year 2024, made landfall in Hainan on Sept. 6, 2024. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Zhang Guimei (R), principal of the Huaping Senior High School for Girls, looks at her students returning school after they sit a national college entrance examination at a test site in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 7, 2024. Zhang, as the principal of a girls school in Yunnan's mountainous areas, has devoted herself to helping rural girls improve their lives and chase their dreams through education. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
This photo taken on Sept. 25, 2024 shows the first newly-installed test prototype of the Core Array of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under the starry sky in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Sept. 25, 2024 marked the eighth anniversary of the launch of China's FAST. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
The formations of Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong carry out a dual aircraft carrier formation exercise for the first time in the South China Sea in late October 2024. The exercise was part of the Liaoning aircraft carrier formation's regular real-combat training in the high seas. (Photo by Chen Mengxi/Xinhua)
A feeder milks white cashmere goats in Rutog County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)
The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is seen passing Dingdu Pavilion in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
A supermoon is seen over Bei'an, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Oct. 17, 2024. (Photo by Qian Boyu/Xinhua)
This combo photo shows Huang Zongde, a recipient of the Medal of the Republic, heading for the Great Hall of the People aboard a motorcade (above) and recipients of national honorary titles heading for the Great Hall of the People aboard a motorcade, in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 29, 2024. A presentation ceremony for national medals and national honorary titles of the People's Republic of China was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 29, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlan, Liu Bin)
A helicopter transports supplies to the "Dome.C" point at an altitude of 6,100 meters from a Chinese scientific expedition base camp at an altitude of 5,400 meters on Purog Kangri Glacier which is roughly 90 km northeast of Shuanghu County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept. 9, 2024. China launched a scientific expedition in August 2024 to investigate the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau -- known as Asia's "water tower" -- with a target region encompassing "one glacier, two lakes and three rivers."
The region is home to Purog Kangri Glacier, the largest glacier in the world, located in the mid to low-latitude regions, as well as Siling Lake and Namtso Lake, the largest and second-largest lakes in Xizang, respectively. It is also the birthplace of the Yangtze River, Nujiang River and Yarlung Zangbo River. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opens in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 5, 2024. (Xinhua/Yan Yan)
This photo taken on July 23, 2024 shows the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among Palestinian factions in Beijing, capital of China. At the invitation of the Chinese side, high-level representatives of 14 Palestinian factions held a reconciliation dialogue in Beijing and inked the Beijing Declaration on Ending Division and Strengthening Palestinian National Unity. (Xinhua/Zhai Jianlan)
Tang Yulin, a forest ranger, interacts with a Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, in Baihe National Nature Reserve in Jiuzhaigou County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)
Bai Yuntian (2nd R), deputy leader of a firefighting and rescue station, instructs rescue team members to control a rubber boat with gestures while transferring stranded residents in Linjiang, northeast China's Jilin Province, July 29, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Hideo Shimizu, 94 years old, prays in front of a list of victims at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
A helicopter takes part in a military exercise organized by the Xinjiang military command in Karakoram Mountains, Sept. 29, 2024. (Photo by Ji Jiantao/Xinhua)
This combo photo of images captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center shows a group photo of the crew of Shenzhou-18 and Shenzhou-19 manned spaceships, Oct. 30, 2024 (above), and a group photo of the crew of Shenzhou-17 and Shenzhou-18 manned spaceships, April 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jie, Jin Liangkuai)
The Tian'anmen Square and its surrounding buildings are pictured in Beijing, capital of China, July 17, 2024. On July 27, 2024, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed the "Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital" on its World Heritage List. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)
A rider demonstrates his skills at a racecourse in Litang County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Air China and China Southern Airlines, two major airlines in China, receive their first C919 large passenger aircraft delivered by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
Yin Kai, a motion capture stuntman, works at a workshop in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Aug. 28, 2024. Yin undertook the majority of the action work for the protagonist of China's first 3A game "Black Myth: Wukong." (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
