An aerial drone photo taken on April 4, 2024 shows boats sailing during the Maoshan boat fair in Xinghua City of east China's Jiangsu Province. The Maoshan boat fair was held on Thursday, which marks the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day. The fair was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2014. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
A woman, once trapped following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in China's Taiwan, hugs her family member after safe evacuation at a rescue and command center near the Taroko park region in Hualien County, southeast China's Taiwan, April 4, 2024. The death toll following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in China's Taiwan on Wednesday morning has risen to 10, local authorities said on Thursday.
After rescue efforts on Thursday, focused on the Taroko park region in Hualien County, approximately 150 people who had been trapped were rescued, according to an official of the search and rescue team. (Xinhua/Zhao Bo)
Shi Rongsheng wipes his tears at the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs' cemetery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 3, 2024. Shi Rongsheng, 76, is a villager from Shijianfang Village, Bazhou, north China's Hebei Province. This Qingming Festival, he went to Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province, to pay tributes to his father, Shi Wanzhong, whom he had never met.
The senior Shi was a CPV soldier killed during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953). Since 2014, the remains of 938 CPV soldiers including the senior Shi have been repatriated and buried in China. This exercise has lasted ten years.
Through artifact identification, social investigations, military history research, and DNA comparisons, the remains of senior Shi were confirmed in this January. "The state helped me confirmed my father's remains, which fulfilled my mother's last wish." Shi Rongsheng burst into joyful tears upon receiving the news. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
A boy stands in front of the rubble after an Israeli airstrike in Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on April 4, 2024. The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced Thursday that the death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks has exceeded 33,000. (Xinhua)
A man casts his vote at a polling station in Hawalli Governorate, Kuwait, on April 4, 2024. Kuwaiti voters began casting their ballots on Thursday to elect members of the National Assembly, in the first parliamentary elections held after Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah assumed power in the country. (Photo by Asad/Xinhua)
A ceremony paying homage to Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, is held in Huangling County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 4, 2024. More than 400 Chinese people, including overseas Chinese, attended a ceremony in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Thursday to pay homage to Huangdi, who is considered to have been the founder of the Chinese civilization and the common ancestor of all Chinese people.
The ceremony is traditionally held on Qingming, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, which falls on Thursday this year. Chinese people mourn their deceased family members and worship their ancestors during the Qingming holiday. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)
This photo taken on April 4, 2024 shows giant panda Fu Bao at the Shenshuping giant panda base in Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan Province. A chartered flight carrying the giant panda Fu Bao landed in Chengdu at around 7:22 p.m. on Wednesday.
Fu Bao is the first giant panda that was born in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to Le Bao and Ai Bao, the pandas leased by China to the country in 2016.
Following inspection by customs at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport, Fu Bao was transported to the Shenshuping giant panda base in Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan for quarantine. (Photo by Li Chuanyou/Xinhua)
Wang Tianhuan (L) of Hunan vies with Gan Chenjun of Yunnan in the men's U10 sabre competition at the 2024 Hubei Province Youth Fencing League in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 4, 2024. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
Malta's new president Myriam Spiteri Debono waves to the crowd as she walks out of St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, April 4, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)
