XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2021: CHINA NEWS (Part 2)
An art performance titled "The Great Journey" is held in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the National Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, on the evening of June 28, 2021. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
An art performance titled "The Great Journey" is held in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the National Stadium in Beijing, capital of China, on the evening of June 28, 2021. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
The national flag guards march during a flag-raising ceremony at a grand gathering marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Li He)
Soldiers holding the flag of the Communist Party of China and the July 1 Medal march to the site of the award ceremony of the medal at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 29, 2021. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)
A group of children, who are members of the Chinese Young Pioneers, present flowers to recipients of the July 1 Medal and salute to them at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 29, 2021. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)
Zhang Guimei waves to children upon her arrival at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 29, 2021.
A ceremony was held on June 29, 2021 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to award the July 1 Medal, the highest honor in the Communist Party of China (CPC), to outstanding Party members for the first time. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)
A national flag-raising ceremony is held at Tian'anmen Square during a grand gathering marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)
The national flag guards march during a flag-raising ceremony at a grand gathering marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
Representatives of the Chinese Communist Youth League members and Young Pioneers salute the Communist Party of China and express commitment to the Party's cause during a ceremony marking the CPC centenary at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
A ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is held at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
Chorus members perform ahead of a ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
A ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is held at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli)
A ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is held at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, July 1, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
Li Chunmin (L) visits his host family when he worked in Tibet, in Bangru Village, Yiri Township, Riwoqe County of Qamdo, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 3, 2021.
The year 1979 was a critical year for Tibet, as more than 3,000 officials from across the country traveled there to aid local development. Li Chunmin was one of them.
Li was an official of Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. under the state-owned company China Communications Construction. He applied to go to the county of Riwoqe.
Since then, he has visited Tibet 20 times as a part of government efforts to bring officials to Tibet to help with local development.
Now, the retired Li has witnessed decades of huge changes in Tibet, which marks the 70th anniversary of its peaceful liberation this year. (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)
Staff members of China Railway No.10 Bureau Group work at Huangtai Station of Qingdao-Jinan railway in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, April 12, 2021. After six hours of construction, more than 1,000 workers from China Railway No.10 Bureau Group completed the upgrade of Huangtai Station connecting two railway lines linking Qingdao and Jinan. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
An adult red-crowned crane feeds a newborn baby crane in Baicheng City of northeast China's Jilin Province, June 21, 2021. A pair of artificially bred red-crowned cranes, raised by Momoge National Nature Reserve in Jilin, have given birth to two baby red-crowned cranes from June 20 to 21, 2021 after they were released into the wild. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)
Milu deer, also known as Pere David's deer, wander at a national nature reserve in Shishou, central China's Hubei Province, May 17, 2021. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Stitched photo shows the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, being launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, June 17, 2021. China on that day successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, sending three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for a three-month mission. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)
Herdsmen lead their livestock to summer pastures in Fuhai County of Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 5, 2021. (Xinhua/Sadat)
Technical personnel celebrate after China's Tianwen-1 probe successfully landed on Mars at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2021. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
People watch a film on popular science at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in east China's Shanghai, May 2, 2021. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
A trapped miner is lifted to the ground from the site of a coal mine accident in Jixi City of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, June 6, 2021. All the eight miners trapped in the coal mine after the coal and gas outburst in Jixi City have been lifted to the ground. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
Deng Ze, wife of deceased scientist Yuan Longping, attends Yuan's funeral at the Mingyangshan funeral parlor in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, May 24, 2021. The top rice scientist, who developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain in 1973, died of organ failure at 91 on May 22, 2021 in Changsha. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)
An adult crested ibis feeds its baby in a forest in Lianghe Village of Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 21, 2021. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)
Staff members check the COVID-19 vaccines on a production line of Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in east China's Anhui Province, May 20, 2021. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)
Villagers see an open-air movie in Gaojiayan Village, Sanjiao Township of Liulin County, north China's Shanxi Province, Aug. 10, 2021. Over the past 40 years, the projection team in Sanjiao has screened more than 10,000 films for villagers. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
Photo taken on July 22, 2021 shows rescuers transferring patients in the flooded hall at the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in Zhongmu County of Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province. (Photo by Ji Peng/Xinhua)
A staff member carries a guideboard downed by gales in east China's Shanghai, July 25, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Xiang)
Ma Weishuai teach students the yangko dance at a school set up for left-behind children in Zhoujiajian Township of Zizhou County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Aug. 6, 2021. In spite of difficulties, Ma, the founder of the school, has stuck to his post for over 30 years. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)
Li Shixiang makes notes in his car after investigating a section of the Great Wall in Yinchuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2021. Li started researching the Great Wall since 2006. He has explored almost all of the areas of the Great Wall in China. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)
Aerial photo taken on July 10, 2021 shows a view of the historical and cultural block of Sanfangqixiang (Three Lanes and Seven Alleys) in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO was held in Fuzhou in July 2021. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
A grand gathering is held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet at the Potala Palace square in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)
A medical worker runs to the ambulance with a newborn baby in her arms outside the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical University inundated by floodwater in Weihui, Xinxiang City, central China's Henan Province, July 26, 2021. (Xinhua/Hao Yuan)
A girl has dinner at a temporary relocation site in a middle school in Xunxian County of Hebi City, central China's Henan Province, July 29, 2021. (Xinhua/Li An)■
