A masked dancer performs during the Kartik Naach Festival on the premises of Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur, Nepal, Oct. 31, 2025. The Kartik Naach festival is held annually in the Hindu lunar calendar month of Kartik, showcasing traditional dance dramas based on Hindu epics. (Photo by Hari Maharjan/Xinhua)
Champion Team Taizhou celebrate during the awarding ceremony after the 2025 Jiangsu Football City League final match between Taizhou and Nantong in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 1, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
A fisherman catches fish on Inle Lake at Nyaungshwe township in Shan state, Myanmar, Oct. 31, 2025. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)
A chef displays his cuisine creation at a Sichuan cuisine cooking skills competition during the 8th World Sichuan Cuisine Conference held in Leshan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 1, 2025. The 8th World Sichuan Cuisine Conference kicked off here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Xu Bingjie)
People visit an exhibition at Shenzhen Bay Culture Square in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 1, 2025. The Shenzhen Bay Culture Square began trial operation on Saturday. The landmark square, with a construction area of 188,000 square meters, has nine exhibition halls. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
An artist performs during the opening ceremony of the 8th China International Circus Festival in Hengqin, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 1, 2025. The festival kicked off Saturday in Hengqin, with the participation of nearly 500 artists from 18 top circus troupes. (Xinhua/Xiao Ennan)
People wade through floodwater after heavy rain and overflow of Citarum river hit at Bojongsoang in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Nov. 1, 2025. (Photo by Septianjar Muharam/Xinhua)
A butterfly rests on a flower in Bairen Village, Hechi City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Oct. 31, 2025. (Photo by Wei Rudai/Xinhua)
Chinese astronauts Zhang Lu (R), Wu Fei (C) and Zhang Hongzhang attend a send-off ceremony at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Oct. 31, 2025. A send-off ceremony for the three Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-21 crewed space mission was held Friday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, according to the China Manned Space Agency. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Nov. 1, 2025 shows a board publicizing offshore duty-free policy in a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province. The island province of Hainan broadened the scope of its offshore duty-free goods by adding two new goods categories, namely pet supplies and portable musical instruments. After this adjustment which took effect on Saturday, the island's offshore duty-free shopping list covers a total of 47 goods categories. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
Members of the scientific expedition team bid farewell to their relatives, friends and colleagues on China's polar research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 1, 2025. China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team set sail from Shanghai on Saturday.
During this expedition, a suite of new technologies will be deployed and tested in the icy wilderness of the Antarctic. Core hardware for validation includes China's independently developed and manufactured Snow Leopard 6×6 wheeled vehicle and the THT550 high-power fully hydraulic towing equipment. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
