BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
A Long March-7 Y8 carrier rocket carrying cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-7 blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Jan. 17, 2024. China launched cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-7 on Wednesday night to deliver supplies for its orbiting Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua/Liu Jinhai)This simulated image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Jan. 18, 2024 shows China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-7 having conducted a rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space station Tiangong. China's cargo craft Tianzhou-7 completed its status setting and docked with the orbiting Tiangong space station on Thursday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. (Photo by Han Qiyang/Xinhua)A China-Europe freight train prepares to pull out from the Horgos Port in Horgos, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 16, 2024. The Alataw Pass and the Horgos Port, two major railway ports in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have handled more than 70,000 China-Europe freight trains since the start of their operations. (Photo by Qiu Jing/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 16, 2024 shows a container vessel loaded with imported cherries sailing toward a container terminal of Tianjin Port in north China's Tianjin. North China's Tianjin Port has launched a new direct shipping route to facilitate cherry imports from Chile, marking the first direct shipping service for Latin American cherries to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, said the port authorities. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)Craftsman Zou Yute makes a bamboo dragon for Firecracker Dragon Festival in Binyang County in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 16, 2024. Zou Yute, a 70-year-old craftsman, is an inheritor of the bamboo dragon-making crafts and has been devoted to this art for over four decades. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)A woman works at an enterprise producing net and rope products in Lizhuang Town of Huimin County, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 22, 2023. China's gross domestic product (GDP) posted a growth of 5.2 percent year on year in 2023, higher than the annual target of around 5 percent, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Wednesday. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)People attend a reception held by China's Dalian City during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16, 2024. Dalian, the host city of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2024, held a reception on Tuesday evening in Davos. The event featured a cultural performance and local gourmet cuisine to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in snowy Davos. (Xinhua/Lian Yi)Students queue up in front of their teacher on the first day of a new semester at a school in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan. 17, 2024. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Xinhua)Visitors take a tour in the Museum of Forma Urbis in Rome, Italy, Jan. 16, 2024. The Museum of the Forma Urbis, enclosed within a new archaeological park, opened to the public recently. (Xinhua/Li Jing)Children play on a beach in the Republic of Nauru, Jan. 17, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)Yan Junling, goalkeeper of China, makes a save during the Group A match between China and Lebanon at AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 in Doha, Qatar, Jan. 17, 2024. (Xinhua/Cao Can)■
