A drone photo taken on Oct. 16, 2025 shows agricultural machines harvesting corns in Jixi City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Huang Yongxing/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 16, 2025 shows the cloud shrouded bamboo forest and village in Yixian County, Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua)
Liv-Alula-Jayco's Josie Talbot is seen during the Stage 3 of the UCI Women's WorldTour Tour of Chongming Island road cycling race in Shanghai, east China, Oct. 16, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)
Students visit a grain depot on World Food Day in Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo by Yi Fan/Xinhua)
A man visits the Reading China booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 15, 2025. The world's largest book fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, opened here on Tuesday with a focus on licensing and rights exchange.
Chinese publishers are making a strong presence at the book fair, showcasing more than 5,000 titles and 6,500 copies, with foreign-language editions accounting for over one-third of the total. (Xinhua/Du Zheyu)
Actors perform during the opening ceremony of the 14th China Art Festival in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 16, 2025. The art festival kicked off here on Thursday, with a variety of cultural activities and exhibits presenting to the audience. (Xinhua/Xu Bingjie)
This photo taken on Oct. 15, 2025 shows a humanoid robot performing at the Service Robots Zone during the 138th edition of the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. The 138th edition of Canton Fair kicked off here on Wednesday. It spotlights a Service Robots Zone to display cutting-edge innovations including humanoid robots, exoskeleton robots, spherical patrol robots, photovoltaic cleaning robots, educational robots, etc. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)
A drone photo taken on Oct. 16, 2025 shows the "SMC RIZHAO" ship performing the maiden voyage of the Qingdao-Jeju container shipping route berthing at the Qingdao International Cruise Terminal in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A regular direct container shipping route between Qingdao and South Korea's Jeju was launched on Thursday. This express shipping route will operate once a week in its initial stage, significantly enhancing the logistics efficiency between the two places, effectively reducing logistics costs, and further densifying the shipping network of east China's Shandong Province to South Korea. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
Actors perform in a Qinqiang Opera in Eisenstadt, Austria, Oct. 16, 2025. As a part of the ongoing 2025 Chinese opera season, a Qinqiang Opera performance, a genre of traditional Chinese folk opera popular in northwest China, was put on in Eisenstadt, Austria on Thursday. (Xinhua/He Canling)
A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying the 12th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China's Hainan Province, Oct. 16, 2025. The rocket lifted off at 9:33 a.m. Thursday. It successfully placed the payloads into preset orbit. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu delivers a speech during the debate on the no-confidence motion against his government at the National Assembly in Paris, France, Oct. 16, 2025. The French government led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu survives two no-confidence motions in the National Assembly on Thursday, thus avoiding collapse in a particularly tense political climate. (Xinhua/Aurelien Morissard)
