People gather in celebration of the upcoming Christmas in the city of Byblos, Lebanon, Dec. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)
People view coffee products displayed at the 2025 China (Pu'er) International Coffee Expo and Pu'er Tea Expo & Trade Fair in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 5, 2025. The three-day dual-expo event kicked off here on Friday, attracting over 100 enterprises from home and abroad. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)
An artist performs in a musical drama commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of the late Chinese composer Xian Xinghai in Macao, south China, Dec. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)
The cauldron lighting ceremony of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games is held at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy, Dec. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Jing)
A Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) carrier rocket carrying the VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) satellites blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Dec. 5, 2025. The satellites entered their planned orbit successfully. (Photo by Li Yunxi/Xinhua)
People walk in snow in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 4, 2025. Seoul on Thursday saw its first snowfall of this year. (Photo by Park Jintaek/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo shows a flare at a national-level demonstration zone of continental shale oil of Daqing Oilfield in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 4, 2025. Daqing Oilfield, one of China's largest energy production bases, announced Friday that the yearly output of the shale oil in the demonstration zone has exceeded one million tonnes. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
A visitor walks past robots displayed at a humanoid robot innovation center in Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone, also known as the optics valley of China, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Dec. 4, 2025. Relying on its scientific and educational resources as well as manufacturing advantages, Hubei is accelerating the layout of its humanoid robot industry chain this year. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
French President Emmanuel Macron visits Sichuan University in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 5, 2025. (Photo by Liu Yuchen/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 4, 2025 shows the construction site of Ice and Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The 27th edition of Ice and Snow World in Harbin has recently kicked off its construction work, which involves more than 10,000 workers and about 1,000 machines. The park area is expected to be extended to 1.2 million square meters, the largest of all editions in history. (Photo by Liu Yang/Xinhua)
