Jordan's Abdallah Nasib (1st R) celebrates after his header causing an own goal by Tajikistan's Vahdat Hanonov (2nd R) during the quarterfinal match at AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 1, 2024 shows mangroves at the Dongzhaigang National Nature Reserve in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province.
Haikou was accredited by the Ramsar Convention as an international wetland city in 2018.
In recent years, the city has strengthened the conservation and restoration of the wetlands. With the implementation of various measures, the ecological, economic and social benefits brought by the construction of an international wetland city have become increasingly prominent. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Children perform with lanterns shaped as zodiac animals on a street in Mianzhu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Xu Bingjie)
Passengers show the Chinese character "Fu", which means "good fortune", aboard the train G4835 on Feb. 1, 2024.
Min Deshui and his wife Long Chunxiang hailing from southwest China's Guizhou Province have been working in Tonglu County of east China's Zhejiang Province for 11 years.
The couple on Thursday began their homecoming journey by taking the high-speed train G4835 from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, to Kaili in Guizhou, which took them less than eight hours. After traveling over 1,500 kilometers by train, they took a car to their hometown in Ladong Village of Jinping County.
With more convenient traffic, migrant workers now spend less time traveling for family reunions in Spring Festival, Min said. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
People perform lion dance during a reception to celebrate the Spring Festival at Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria, Jan. 31, 2024. A reception in celebration of the Spring Festival, co-hosted by China's Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna and UN Vienna Chinese Culture Club, was held here on Wednesday. It was the first such event staged at the UN Office at Vienna by the permanent mission. (Xinhua/He Canling)
A visitor looks at an exhibit at the exhibition "Mythological Jade of Shijiahe Culture" in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 1, 2024. The exhibition showcases a total of 172 cultural relics from the Shijiahe site, which is the ruins of a prehistoric city in Hubei Province, as well as from 20 other cultural institutions and museums across the country. Together, they depict the diverse and integrated development pattern of Chinese civilization. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Children and adolescents from China and ASEAN member countries sing the theme song during the launching ceremony of ASEAN-China Year of People-to-People Exchanges, in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Feb. 2, 2024. The launching ceremony of ASEAN-China Year of People-to-People Exchanges was held here on Friday. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
People visit the exhibition "Zimingzhong: Clockwork Treasures from China's Forbidden City" in London, Britain, Feb. 1, 2024. An exhibition opened at the Science Museum in London on Thursday, featuring 23 resplendent mechanical clocks, called zimingzhong, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing. (Xinhua/Li Ying)
People visit the Fuzi (Confucius) Temple scenic area in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1, 2024. About 330 sets of festive lanterns will decorate seven urban areas of Nanjing during the upcoming Chinese New Year. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
Firefighters work at the site of a fire resulting from a gas explosion in the Embakasi neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 2, 2024.
At least two people were killed and 222 others injured in an inferno resulting from a gas explosion in the capital of Kenya here, an official confirmed on Friday morning.
Government Spokesman Isaac Mwaura said the fire, which started at around 11:30 p.m. Thursday local time (2030 GMT), was caused by a truck loaded with gas cylinders that exploded, igniting a huge fireball that spread to a warehouse and a neighborhood nearby. (Photo by Joy Nabukewa/Xinhua)
