BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
This photo taken on Dec. 24, 2023 shows the construction site of P4 main tower of Hanjiang grand bridge, a project on the Xi'an-Shiyan high-speed railway, in Shiyan, central China's Hubei Province. The capping of the P4 main tower of the 917.45-meter-long cable-stayed bridge was completed on Sunday. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)This photo taken on Dec. 24, 2023 shows an ancient city wall light show in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Wang Xuzhong/Xinhua)This aerial photo taken on Dec. 24, 2023 shows a watercourse of the Pinglu Canal running through the city of Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Pinglu Canal is a flagship project on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. It stretches from the Xijin reservoir in the city of Hengzhou to Qinzhou port in the south of Guangxi, where ships can reach the Beibu Gulf via the Qinjiang River, opening a shorter route to the sea for Guangxi and other regions in southwest China. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)This photo taken on Dec. 24, 2023 shows an exterior view of the cruise ship "Adora Magic City" docked at the Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal in east China's Shanghai. China's first domestically-built large cruise ship, the "Adora Magic City," departed from a port in Shanghai on Sunday, starting its trial operation. Carrying invited guests and nearly 1,300 crew members from around the world, the ship set off after noontime Sunday from the Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal and is expected to return to the terminal on Monday. Another trial operation is scheduled afterward to prepare for the commercial maiden voyage to Northeast Asia on Jan. 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)An actor interacts with passengers on a themed subway train for the 21st Silk Road Ice and Snow Festival in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 23, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)This aerial photo taken on Dec. 24, 2023 shows flowing ice on the Yellow River in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)A man holds the body of a victim at a hospital in central Gaza Strip city of Deir el-Balah, on Dec. 23, 2023. (Xinhua)
A man in festive costume waves to pedestrians on a street in Valletta, Malta, on Dec. 23, 2023. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)Homeless people are pictured in San Francisco, California, the United States, Dec. 23, 2023. The number of homeless people in the United States has increased by 12 percent to a record high, showed a government report on Dec. 15. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua)
