An aerial drone photo taken on May 7, 2024 shows China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, during its maiden sea trials. China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, completed maiden sea trials on Wednesday. (Photo by Ding Ziyu/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 25, 2024 shows tourists on the Zhaozhou Bridge in Zhaoxian County, north China's Hebei Province. Built in the Sui Dynasty (581-618), the 1,400-year-old Zhaozhou Bridge stands over the Xiaohe River in Zhaoxian County, Hebei Province. It is the world's oldest single-arch bridge.
A combination of location, design and excellent construction are the main reasons why the bridge has withstood earthquake, flood and war for 1,400 years.
Along with such world-famous landmarks as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, the bridge was listed into China's first group of national cultural heritage protection sites in 1961.
Nowadays, the Zhaozhou Bridge scenic area has been open to public for free, bringing numerous tourists into the county. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)
This photo shows a flooded area near Channelview, east of Houston, Texas, the United States, May 5, 2024. At least one boy was killed and a woman injured on Sunday in floodwaters in Texas, where more than one third counties have issued disaster declarations during the past week due to heavy rainfalls. (Photo by Chen Chen/Xinhua)
A red-crowned crane guards its chick and egg at Zhalong National Nature Reserve in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 7, 2024. Zhalong National Nature Reserve has made a detailed plan to ensure an ideal environment as the captive-bred red-crowned cranes there are in their breeding season.
The reserve is dubbed the "home of red-crowned cranes" in China, and serves as the world's largest habitat and reproduction base for wild red-crowned cranes.
To date, more than 380 red-crowned cranes bred in captivity have been released into the wild. (Photo by Wang Yonggang/Xinhua)
A passenger boards a "Panda Train" at Guiyang railway station in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 8, 2024. A tourist train, decorated with images, paintings and mascots of the panda and named as "Panda Train", linking Guiyang, Xishuangbanna and Laos, departed from Guiyang on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
A rescue team evacuate flood-affected people in Santo Afonso, Novo Hamburgo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on May 7, 2024. Five more people were killed by storms ravaging south Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 90, the state's civil defense agency said Tuesday.
In the state bordering Uruguay and Argentina, record rainfall, flooding and mudslides have left 132 people missing and 361 injured, and forced over 200,000 residents to evacuate from homes over the past eight days. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)
A guest tries an Oppo cellphone at the 6th World Customs Organization (WCO) Global Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) Conference in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, May 8, 2024.
The 6th WCO Global AEO Conference opened in Shenzhen on Wednesday. The conference, hosted by the WCO and co-hosted by the General Administration of Customs (GAC) of China and the municipal government of Shenzhen, will last for three days under the theme of "harnessing the power of AEO programmes for inclusive and sustainable global trade."
More than 1,200 delegates from customs, international organizations, AEO enterprises, governments agencies, academic institutions, and industry associations from more than 100 countries and regions have attended the conference. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)
The Belem, a three-masted sailing ship carrying the Olympic flame, arrives in the southern French city of Marseille on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Julien Mattia/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on May 8, 2024 shows the construction site of an air traffic control tower in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The capping of the main structure of an air traffic control tower of a new airport in Hohhot has been completed on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)
