People take part in a rally calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israeli government and Hamas and the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas, in Jerusalem on April 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing)
An autonomous rice transplanter works at a smart planting base in Datonghu District of Yiyang City, central China's Hunan Province, April 10, 2024. The smart planting base in Datonghu District of Yiyang City started transplanting operations on Wednesday. With the help of a smart agricultural platform, staff members here are able to remotely create and control agricultural operations and conduct other agricultural procedures. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)
People enjoy leisure time during the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Damascus, Syria, on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 10, 2024 shows the icebreaker Xuelong at a port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. China's research icebreaker Xuelong on Wednesday arrived at a port in Qingdao after completing its latest Antarctic expedition and it will host a three-day open house to the public.
China's 40th Antarctic expedition team set off from Shanghai on Nov. 1, 2023 and successfully completed various expedition tasks that lasted 161 days with a total of more than 81,000 nautical miles. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 10, 2024 shows people attending a prayer in celebration of Eid al-Fitr outside the Al-Azhar Great Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
This photo taken on April 9, 2024 shows a JSQ freight train ready to depart from Harbin international container center station in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The first JSQ freight train from Harbin to Europe, which is loaded with 290 domestic commercial vehicles from China, departed on Tuesday. The JSQ is a special train model dedicated to the transportation of automobiles. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 8, 2024 shows an industrial park of plantations with crops and vegetables planted in turn in Miyi County, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Anning River plain, which is nurtured by Anning River, is the second largest plain in southwest Sichuan. It provides a favorable foundation for agricultural development with its unique natural conditions such as water, soil, light and climate.
Miyi County of Panzhihua City, located along the Anning River, is one of the first counties in China to build national agricultural modernization demonstration zone.
In recent years, Miyi County has built modern agricultural parks taking advantages of modern science and technology. A "three-level" agricultural mode, with different kinds of crops, fruits and vegetables planted in different altitudes, has been designed to improve economic effectiveness. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Peach flowers are seen at the Pabonka Hermitage in the northern suburb of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, April 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
Wang Xinyu (bottom) of China signs her autograph for fans after the women's singles match against Sahaja Yamalapalli of India at the Billie Jean King Cup 2024 tennis tournament Asia-Oceania Group I match in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, April 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
People and elephants splash water to each other to celebrate the upcoming Songkran Festival in Ayutthaya, Thailand, April 9, 2024. Songkran Festival, the traditional Thai New Year, is celebrated from April 13 to 15 every year, during which people express greetings by splashing water on each other. (Xinhua/Rachen Sageamsak)
The germination of the seeds of Cypripedium flavum is seen at the Lijiang Alpine Botanic Garden in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 27, 2024. Lijiang Alpine Botanic Garden of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is located in the Yulong Snow Mountain. With an elevation difference of about 1 kilometer, seeds could be conserved under favorable conditions in this area.
As the director of the botanic garden, Xu Kun is specialized in plant resources and conservation biology. Recently, in the lab, Xu has observed that the seeds of Cypripedium flavum germinated three months ahead of schedule, which made him feel excited. This means that following experiments could be carried out sooner. The seed germination conditions of endangered Cypripedium are usually strict, and there are few new seedlings each year. After years of research, Xu and his team have obtained the aseptic germination technique of seeds of 4 Cypripedium species, which contributed to the following production procedures.
Fan Zhongyu is a technician at Lijiang Alpine Botanical Garden. Currently, Fan and his team monitor the growth of plants in Yunshanping on a sample area of 25 hectares at the east side of Yulong Snow Mountain. Every day, Fan gets up early, returns late for working in the mountain.
According to introduction, Lijiang Alpine Botanical Garden has more than 1000 native species. By far, more than 2000 alpine and subalpine species were introduced to the park.
At present, seed bank, artificial climate chamber, high-standard greenhouse, tissue culture facilities have been established at the botanic park, creating a complete research system with functions of investigation, collection, conservation, research, development, production, etc. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
