BEIJING, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
Members of a Chinese expedition team perform a real-time water quality check at a proglacial lake in the Mount Cho Oyu region on Oct. 1, 2023. An 18-member expedition team successfully reached on Sunday the summit of Mount Cho Oyu, also known as Mt. Qowowuyag, which soars to 8,201 meters above sea level, to carry out scientific research. It was the first time Chinese scientists scaled a peak exceeding 8,000 meters in altitude apart from Mt. Qomolangma, the world's highest summit. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
People visit the Anhui Art Museum in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 1, 2023. People across the country participate in cultural activities to enrich their holiday life during the National Day holiday. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
This aerial photo taken on Oct. 2, 2023 shows a container storage area at Qinzhou Port in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Container throughput of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor witnessed growth in the first three quarters of 2023, according to railway authorities in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
During this period, some 633,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of goods were transported by rail-sea intermodal trains through the corridor, up 14 percent year on year, data from the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd. showed.
Launched in 2017, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in western China and ASEAN members. The trade corridor has developed rapidly over the years, covering 61 cities in 18 provincial-level regions in China and expanding its reach to 393 ports in 119 countries and regions. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
Gold medalists Team China attend medal ceremony for DOTA2 Final Match of Esports at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
Amarsanaa Ganbaatar of Mongolia competes during the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the 19th Asian Games in Chun'an County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
Sadegh Azarang of Iran reacts after the Men -90kg Final of Kurash at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
High-speed electric multiple unit (EMU) trains for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway stop at Halim Station in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2023. Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared the official operation of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) here on Monday morning. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
The announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is held at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 2, 2023. Two scientists, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications, the Nobel Committee announced on Monday. (Photo by Wei Xuechao/Xinhua)
People dive around corals in the Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt, on Oct. 2, 2023. Dahab, a town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, is world-renowned for many of its dive spots including the Blue Hole. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai)■
