An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 21, 2025 shows a view of a colorful pond cluster after snow at the Huanglong scenic area in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Huanglong witnessed the first snowfall of this autumn on Tuesday. (Photo by Sun Jiapeng/Xinhua)
A doctor guides students to experience pulse diagnosis at a primary school in Anding District of Dingxi City, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 22, 2025. Lessons on traditional Chinese medicine were introduced in various ways across the country to welcome the annual World Traditional Medicine Day which falls on Oct. 22. (Photo by Wang Kexian/Xinhua)
This photo shows the inauguration ceremony of Airbus' second Final Assembly Line (FAL) for A320 family aircraft in Tianjin, north China, Oct. 22, 2025.
Airbus on Wednesday inaugurated its latest Final Assembly Line (FAL) for A320 family aircraft in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin, the second of its kind in both China and Asia as a whole. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)
A guest visits the preview of the Dunhuang Culture and Art Public Benefit Exhibition in east China's Shanghai, Oct. 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Haoming)
A drone photo taken on Oct. 22, 2025 shows migratory birds at Naoli River national nature reserve in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Sheng Jingli/Xinhua)
Silver medalist Zhang Boheng (L) of China congratulates gold medalist Hashimoto Daiki of Japan during the awarding ceremony for Men's All-Round at the 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct. 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei)
Federal employees and contractors receive food items during a free food distribution in Hyattsville, Maryland, the United States, on Oct. 21, 2025. Starting this week, the nonprofit Capital Area Food Bank started to provide special free food distributions to U.S. federal employees and contractors.
Over the past weeks, the impact of the government shutdown has gradually become apparent. About 750,000 federal employees in so-called "non-essential" positions have been furloughed without pay, while hundreds of thousands in "essential" roles remain on the job -- also without pay.
Against the backdrop of rising food prices and high mortgage costs, the inability to receive timely paychecks has placed significant financial pressure on many federal workers. (Xinhua/Li Rui)
This photo taken on Oct. 22, 2025 shows the Orionid meteor shower in the sky over the Yading scenic spot in Daocheng County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Dai Jianfeng/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 19, 2025 shows an entrance of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in south China. More than 93.34 million inbound and outbound passenger trips had been recorded through the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as of Wednesday, seven years after the bridge opened to traffic.
According to the bridge's border inspection station, they handled 12.88 million passenger trips in 2019 and 860,000 vehicle trips that year. These numbers rose to 27 million and 5.55 million, respectively, in 2024 -- and have exceeded 25.1 million and 5.46 million, respectively, so far this year, up 17 and 25 percent year on year, respectively. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)
Wrestlers compete in a "Sindhi Malakhra" wrestling match in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Oct. 21, 2025. Sindhi Malakhra is an ancient form of wrestling that originated in Pakistan's Sindh region. (Str/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Oct. 22, 2025 shows the burial of the unidentified bodies of Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)
