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2024-02-24 11:25:49

An ARJ21 passenger aircraft of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) flies during the aerial display of the Singapore Airshow held in Singapore's Changi Exhibition Centre on Feb. 22, 2024. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)

The fish-shaped lantern performing team patrol in Wangmantian Village, Shexian County of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 22, 2024. Local villagers have the tradition to make fish-shaped lanterns to pray for harvest and good fortune on the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, or Feb. 24 this year. (Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua)

This screenshot captured from a video shows crew members demonstrating paintings aboard China's Tiangong space station on Feb. 23, 2024. An unconventional exhibition of paintings made by teenagers opened on Friday aboard China's Tiangong space station, which is orbiting about 400 kilometers above Earth.

A total of 53 paintings on the theme of Chinese modernization are now on display in orbit, having been selected from a pool of over 20,000 submissions from teens across the country.

The paintings arrived on the space station aboard the Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft last month. (Xinhua)

A Long March-5 Y7 carrier rocket carrying a communication technology experiment satellite blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 23, 2024. China successfully sent a communication technology experiment satellite into space from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on Friday.

The satellite was launched at 7:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-5 Y7 carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)

Su Yiming of Shanxi competes during men's snowboard big air final at the 14th National Winter Games in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)

Rescued migrants get into a vehicle after disembarkation in Pieta, Malta, on Feb. 23, 2024. Five people were confirmed dead and eight others injured after a migrant boat capsized near Malta's shores during a rescue operation, the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) said on Friday. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)

An aerial panoramic drone photo taken on Feb. 21, 2024 shows the Zhangzhou nuclear power project under construction in Zhangzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. China has begun construction on the second phase of the Zhangzhou nuclear power project using Hualong One reactors, domestically developed third-generation reactors, in the city of Zhangzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province.

The first four Hualong One units have been completed and put into operation, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

The Zhangzhou nuclear power project is designed to consist of six nuclear power units, each with a 1-million-kilowatt power generation capacity. (Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 22, 2024 shows a scene at a Shehuo show in Xunyang, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Shehuo, a traditional folk celebration in China, is a festivity in multiple forms consisting of dragon dance, lion dance, traditional Chinese opera, drum playing and other folk performances that may vary in different regions.

The Shehuo show in Xunyang boasts dragon dance with the dragon weighing over 40 kilograms and its head reaching a height of three to four meters. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly (C) witnesses the signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in New Administrative Capital, Egypt, on Feb. 23, 2024. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed the deal on Friday to build a new city on Egypt's northern coast, with the aim of boosting tourism, investment and foreign currency reserves. (Str/Xinhua)