This photo taken on Dec. 2, 2023 shows the opening ceremony of the 2023 Understanding China Conference (Guangzhou) in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. The conference is being held from Friday to Sunday in Guangzhou, under the theme of "China's New Endeavors amid Unprecedented Global Changes -- Expanding the Convergence of Interests and Building A Community of Shared Future." (Xinhua/Lu Hanxin)
Actors perform Sichuan Opera in Yongxi ancient town, Dazu District, southwest China's Chongqing, Dec. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
People watch a drone show in Nansha District of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec, 2, 2023. A drone show was put on in Guangzhou to celebrate the fifth World Media Summit, which runs from Dec. 2 to 8 in the Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Kunming of southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
This aerial photo taken on Nov. 30, 2023 shows a drilling site of Hongde oilfield in Huanxian County of northwest China's Gansu Province. Changqing Oilfield, a branch of PetroChina, has discovered a large-scale, well-preserved oilfield with geological reserves of over 100 million tonnes in the county. (Changqing Oilfield/Handout via Xinhua)
This photo taken on Nov. 25, 2023 shows a view of the play "One Day" at a theater in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The performers are all amateurs including high school students, goods deliverers, office clerks, factory workers, doctors and nurses, and retired local residents. (Xinhua)
Workers are seen at a production workshop of a smart technology company at a sensor industrial park in Chongqing, southwest China, Nov. 30, 2023. In recent years, the Beibei District of Chongqing has worked together with China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) in building a sensor industrial park. By introducing preferential policies, support funds and investment, the park is aimed at promoting the intelligent sensor industry to develop in a large-scale, specialized, differential and high-end way. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
Northern Lights illuminate the sky in Jiamusi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 1, 2023. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua)
People take part in World AIDS Day awareness activities in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 1, 2023. The 36th World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December this year. (Photo by Gayan Sameera/Xinhua)
A participant walks past a COP28 logo (R) at the Expo City, the venue of COP28, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1, 2023. COP28, which refers to the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is held in the Expo City of Dubai from Nov. 30 to Dec. 12. (Xinhua/Wang Dongzhen)
Su Yiming of China competes during the men's snowboard big air final at the FIS Snowboard and Freeski Big Air World Cup at Big Air Shougang in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Xu Yanan)
Lava flows downhill as Mount Etna erupts on the island of Sicily, Italy, Dec. 1, 2023. (Photo by Valeria Abis/Xinhua)
