BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Wei Meinyu, a live streamer with disabilities, promotes products online in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 12, 2022. There are 85 million disabled people in China. Thanks to concerted efforts by various departments, their employment channels have greatly expanded, and multiple forms of employment for disabled people have taken shape. According to a three-year plan issued by the central government, a million new jobs for persons with disabilities in urban and rural areas will be created between 2022 and 2024. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
Trainees do physical exercise at a career advisory service center for people with disabilities in Heping District, north China's Tianjin, May 13, 2022. Staff members here teach vocational skills to the trainees to help them with better social integration. Meanwhile, physical rehabilitation, mental counseling, and many forms of entertainment are also provided. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
Wei Haidong, a technician with disabilities, sets up a production kit at a locomotive factory in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 14, 2022. This locomotive factory employs 92 people with disabilities. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
A mentally disabled staff member (1st L) makes green bean cakes with visiting children at Amity Bakery in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 15, 2022. Founded in 2007, the bakery has provided occupational training and job opportunities for nearly 100 mentally disabled people in the past 15 years. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
Music coach Yue Lei teaches a child with autism in a vocal class in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, May 14, 2022. Yue Lei, 33, is completely blind due to congenital optic atrophy. Yue, who has been interested in music since childhood, studied pop music in college and competed in singing competitions. He applied for a business loan after graduation to start an art training class in Hefei. Yue decided to teach music to these children almost for free after learning that some musical training centers refused to accept children with autism. Yue chose to instruct based on the children's interests. He would also research ways to improve their sense of rhythm. These children have made great strides thanks to Yue's instruction. Yue hopes to set up music classes specifically for autistic groups in the future, so that music can serve as a bridge for them to communicate with the rest of the world. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)
Floating airship "Jimu No.1" type III is about to lift off in Zhaxizom Township of Tingri County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 15, 2022. China's self-developed floating airship, designed for atmosphere observation, reached a record altitude of 9,032 meters in Tibet Autonomous Region on Sunday, according to its developer. Developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the floating airship "Jimu No.1" type III has a volume of 9,060 cubic meters. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)
A resident waits for his take-out outside a restaurant in Beijing, capital of China, May 14, 2022. (Xinhua/Peng Ziyang)
Staff members deliver daily necessities ordered by residents at a community in Haidian District under quarantine amid the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2022. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
A worker checks the production of copper foil at a factory affiliated with Jiangxi Copper Corporation Limited in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 12, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)
The first C919 large passenger aircraft to be delivered takes off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, east China, May 14, 2022. The first C919 large passenger aircraft to be delivered completed a successful maiden test flight on Saturday, according to the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC). China's indigenously-developed jet, coded B-001J, took off at 6:52 a.m. from Shanghai Pudong International Airport and landed at the same site at 9:54 a.m. (Xinhua)
People gather at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Austria, May 15, 2022. (Xinhua/Guo Chen)
Representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Austria visit the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial in honor of the Chinese victims at the camp during an event commemorating the 77th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Austria, May 15, 2022. (Xinhua/Guo Chen)
Photo taken on May 13, 2022 shows pelicans in Lake Nakuru, Kenya. Saturday marks the World Migratory Bird Day, which aims to raise awareness of the critical ecological value of migratory birds and the threats facing them on a rapidly urbanizing planet. (Xinhua/Dong Jianghui)
Hungarian President Katalin Novak delivers a speech during her inauguration ceremony in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, May 14, 2022. The Hungarian parliament on March 10 elected Katalin Novak as the country's first female president for a five-year term. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)
Photo taken with a mobile phone on May 14, 2022 shows people standing near the site of a mass shooting in Buffalo of New York State, the United States. An armored gunman killed ten people and injured three at a supermarket in Buffalo of New York State on Saturday, according to local enforcement officials. (Photo by Zhang Jie/Xinhua)
Finland's President Sauli Niinisto (R) and Prime Minister Sanna Marin attend a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, May 15, 2022. Finland's president and the government's foreign policy committee on Sunday took the official decision to start the process of the country's application to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (Xinhua/Chen Jing)
People attend a protest in Okinawa, Japan, May 15, 2022. Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan from the control of the United States. Ceremonies were held by the government to mark the anniversary while a large number of residents gathered outside the venue demanding the reduction of the U.S. base-hosting burdens and even a total withdrawal of the U.S. forces. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)
Photo taken on May 14, 2022 shows the statue of the god Anubis discovered at the tomb of King Tutankhamun, at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. As a funerary deity, Anubis is associated with mummification, funerary rituals, and the cemetery in ancient Egyptian myth, usually depicted as a black canine, or a man with a canine head. It can be found in large numbers of pharaonic antiquities at the world-known Egyptian Museum. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai)
Models present creations at the Belarus Fashion Week in Minsk, Belarus, May 14, 2022. (Photo by Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua)■
