Tourists visit the Palace Museum in snow in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2023. China's meteorological authority on Wednesday renewed a yellow alert for blizzards, forecasting intense snowfall in the north of the country. (Xinhua/Li Xin)
Attendees applaud after announcement of UAE consensus during a closing plenary of COP28, or the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dec. 13, 2023. COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber announced on Wednesday that parties to the UN climate summit have reached a final consensus on a "historic" climate deal. (Xinhua/Wang Dongzhen)
This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (R) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall.
Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types.
In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall.
This year they published a picture book on the forms of the Great Wall. In their book, the Great Wall is dissected into parts and details. They hope that their work could help more people to know better about the details of the Great Wall and provide reference for the protection and restoration of the Great Wall.
Having working together on the research of the Great Wall for almost four decades, the father and son are deeply bonded by the Great Wall. And they would continue their research on it as well. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)
This photo taken on Dec. 13, 2023 shows Le Le at River Wonders park in Singapore. Le Le, a two-year-old giant panda, made his final public appearance on Wednesday before entering quarantine and preparing for his flight to China on Jan. 16 next year.
About 1,000 guests came to the Pavilion Capital Giant Panda Forest exhibit of River Wonders park, a renowned zoo in Singapore, to bid farewell to Le Le, the first panda born in Singapore, according to the Mandai Wildlife Group. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)
This aerial photo taken on Dec. 12, 2023 shows the snow scenery of Huashan Mountain in Weinan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Photo by Zhao Xiaogang/Xinhua)
Voting results are displayed during an emergency special session held at the UN headquarters in New York on Dec. 12, 2023. The UN General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon adopted a resolution demanding an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza.
Member states voted down two amendments making specific reference to "extremist group Hamas," with 153 supporting the draft resolution, 10 against and 23 countries abstaining. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)
This aerial photo shows the site after a fire at a slum area in Manila, the Philippines on Dec. 12, 2023. The pre-dawn fire that erupted Tuesday left 240 families homeless, the Philippine Bureau of Fire Protection said. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
China holds its 10th national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 13, 2023. The people of Nanjing observed a moment of silence, and sirens were heard across the city as China held a memorial ceremony on Wednesday to mourn the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
