BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
A person injured in an earthquake receives treatment at a hospital in Jishishan Bao'an, Dongxiang, Salar Autonomous County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Gansu Province, Dec. 19, 2023. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted an ethnic county in northwest China's Gansu Province at midnight Monday has killed 105 people in the province, according to a local press conference held on Tuesday morning. (Xinhua/Fan Peishen)Rescuers are in operation at Caotan Village of Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County in Haidong City, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Dec. 19, 2023. Eleven people have been confirmed dead in northwest China's Qinghai Province, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the neighboring Gansu Province late Monday evening, according to local authorities. The epicenter was located just 5 km from the border between the two provinces. Many areas in Qinghai have felt strong tremors. (Xinhua/Zhang Hongxiang)The G8842 Fuxing bullet train prepares to depart from the Tianjin West Railway Station in Tianjin, north China, Dec. 18, 2023. A railway connecting north China's Tianjin Municipality with the Beijing Daxing International Airport opened on Monday, the latest move to support the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The G8842 Fuxing bullet train departed from the Tianjin West Railway Station at 7:58 a.m. and arrived at the Daxing Airport Railway Station at 8:50 a.m., marking the inauguration of the new line's operation. According to the China Railway Design Corporation, the fastest train on the 101-km line takes 41 minutes to travel one way. The line covers six stations, and a 47-km section is new, with a designed speed of 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Li Ran)The naming ceremony for the deep-sea drilling ship "Mengxiang" (Dream) is held in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 18, 2023. China's first domestically built deep-sea drilling ship has been officially named "Mengxiang" (Dream). She started her trial voyage on Monday, marking a step forward for the country's exploration of deep-sea resources. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)
This aerial photo taken on Dec. 17, 2023 shows the flowing ice on the Yellow River in Zibo, east China's Shandong Province. (Photo by Zhang Weitang/Xinhua)This aerial photo taken on Dec. 17, 2023 shows workers packing tomatoes at a vegetable wholesale market in Yuanmou County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Farmers and planting enterprises in Yunnan Province are busy harvesting vegetables to supply the market. Yunnan is an important base for growing and transporting vegetables in winter. (Photo by Xia Tianyu/Xinhua)A sanitation worker clears snow on the street in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)This aerial photo taken on Dec. 18, 2023 shows the snow scenery of Badaling Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China. (Photo by Liu Yu/Xinhua)Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reacts during a press conference at the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, on Dec. 17, 2023. Coalition around the ruling SNS won over 127 out of 250 seats at the snap parliamentary election, announced the country's President Aleksandar Vucic at the headquarters of SNS on Sunday. (Photo by Predrag Milosavljevic/Xinhua)This photo released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Dec. 17, 2023 shows Israeli soldiers examining a large underground Hamas tunnel system uncovered in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said it has uncovered the largest underground Hamas tunnel system in Gaza so far. The system splits into branches of tunnels, spans over more than 4 km and reaches 400 meters from the Erez crossing, a passageway between Gaza and Israel. (Xinhua)This photo taken on Dec. 18, 2023 shows a press conference on the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's National Election Authority (NEA) declared on Monday that incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi won the 2024 presidential election with 89.6 percent of valid votes. (Xinhua/Wang Dongzhen)
