People walk past a movie poster at a cinema in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 4, 2025. Statistics show that China's box office revenue for the 2025 Spring Festival holiday has reached 9 billion yuan (about 1.24 billion U.S. dollars) as of Tuesday, setting a new record for the same period in the country's film industry history. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
Han Yu of China competes during the mixed doubles Round Robin Session 1 match between Amina Seitzhanova/Azizbek Nadirbayev of Kazakhstan and Han Yu/Wang Zhiyu of China in the curling event at 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 4, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
Fireworks in celebration of the Spring Festival illuminate the sky in Macao, south China, Feb. 4, 2025. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)
Visitors experience the art of shadow puppet play in New York City, the United States, on Feb. 2, 2025. Prince Kung's Palace Museum, one of the top-level museums and tourist sites in China, gave a new flavor to the Chinese New Year celebrations in the New York metropolitan area as it concluded its two-week visit to the United States. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)
A child has fun at a snow resort in north China's Tianjin, Feb. 4, 2025. During the Spring Festival holiday, many tourist destinations in China attracted visitors with ice and snow activities. (Xinhua/Li Ran)
Passengers are seen at the waiting hall of Beijing South Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 4, 2025. China's highways, railways and airports saw a surge of people returning from family reunions and festival celebrations on Tuesday, the last day of this year's Spring Festival holiday. (Xinhua/Li Xin)
A drone photo taken on Feb. 4, 2025 shows vehicles at a toll gate of Hefei-Nanjing expressway in Quanjiao County, Chuzhou City of east China's Anhui Province. China's highways, railways and airports saw a surge of people returning from family reunions and festival celebrations on Tuesday, the last day of this year's Spring Festival holiday. (Photo by Shen Guo/Xinhua)
A worker carries a sack of rice inside the National Food Authority (NFA) warehouse in Valenzuela City, the Philippines, on Feb. 4, 2025. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the "extraordinary" rice prices in the country.
"This emergency declaration allows us to release rice buffer stocks held by the NFA to stabilize prices and ensure that rice, a staple food for millions, remains accessible to consumers," Laurel said in a statement. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
