Teachers hold cards with their greetings meaning "Hello, 2024" to greet the upcoming New Year with children at Guantang Kindergarten in Tancheng County of Linyi, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 29, 2023. (Photo by Zhang Chunlei/Xinhua)
An employee works at an excavator assembly line of a Develon subsidiary in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 26, 2023. Yantai City has been promoting high-quality development in manufacturing by fostering innovative enterprises since 2022 to complete, strengthen and expand the industrial chain. Value-added industrial output of enterprises above designated size rose 11.6 percent year on year in Yantai during the first three quarters of 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
A visitor looks at a sculpture during an exhibition featuring artworks from China at the National Gallery of Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 27, 2023. The exhibition brings together 63 artworks by 42 Chinese artists. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)
The first freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor that runs via China-Laos-Thailand Railway waits for departure at the Tuanjiecun Central Station in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 29, 2023. A freight train departed Friday morning from the Tuanjiecun Central Station in Chongqing for Map Ta Phut Station in Thailand, marking the opening of the first international freight train of New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor that runs via China-Laos-Thailand Railway.
Loaded with 64 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of chemicals, the train is scheduled to arrive in Map Ta Phut via Laos' Vientiane in 5 days. In the meantime, a freight train loaded with 30 TEU containers of agricultural products has set out from Map Ta Phut and is moving in the opposite direction.
The new service shortens the transportation time between Chongqing and Thailand by nearly 20 days if compared with routine water transport. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain serves to Thiago Seyboth Wild of Brazil during the men's singles match at the United Cup tennis tournament in Perth, Australia, Dec. 29, 2023. (Photo by Zhou Dan/Xinhua)
Students study at a temporary classroom in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, Dec. 28, 2023. Some students in Gaza have switched to study at temporary classrooms as many schools here are used for accommodating the homeless inflicted by a new round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Dec. 28, 2023 shows two special editions of postage stamps issued by the Post of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia. The Post of Serbia unveiled two distinctive editions of postage stamps on Thursday, marking the 10th anniversary of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and highlighting China's profound cultural heritage. (Photo by Wang Wei/Xinhua)
This aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2023 shows the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site under construction in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province. Construction work was completed Friday on the No. 1 launch pad of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site, in the city of Wenchang, on south China's island province of Hainan.
The project serves as the dedicated site for China's new-generation medium-sized rocket, Long March 8, according to Yang Tianliang, chairman of Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co., Ltd. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
A gardener carries freshly picked roses on his head and shoulder in Savar, Bangladesh, Dec. 28, 2023. (Xinhua)
A villager harvests prawns at a prawn breeding base in Lianzhou Town of Hepu County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Dec. 27, 2023. With its characteristic aquaculture industry, Hepu County has developed 12 aquatic products processing enterprises and 32 prawn breeding bases under small sheds, reaching an annual output value of 370 million yuan (about 52 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
This photo taken on Dec. 29, 2023 shows the model of China's space station core module Tianhe at the Exhibition of Achievements in China Manned Space Program in Shanghai, east China. The 50-day exhibition started at Shanghai New International Expo Center on Friday and it will be open to the public for free. (Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong)
