An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 15, 2025 shows a container dock at Tangshan Port in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province.
China's economy has maintained steady momentum in November, creating favorable conditions to achieve the annual growth target, as revealed by the latest economic indicators on Monday.
In November, the country's value-added industrial output expanded 4.8 percent year on year. In the first 11 months, the industrial output increased by 6 percent. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
Emergency crews work at the aircraft crash site in Toluca, the State of Mexico, central Mexico, Dec. 15, 2025. At least six people were killed Monday after a small aircraft crashed in the municipality of San Mateo Atenco in Mexico's central State of Mexico, local authorities said. (Photo by Arturo Hernandez/Xinhua)
Sun Yuliang of Inner Mongolia shows the medals he won in swimming events at China's 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the 9th National Special Olympic Games in Jiangmen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 14, 2025. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)
A tourist in costume poses for a photo at a square of architecture art in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 15, 2025. The square, where the landmark St. Sophia Cathedral, a former Russian Orthodox church, is located, has become a hot spot for tourists to take travel photos. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
This photo taken on Dec. 12, 2025 shows the Geminid meteor shower in the sky over Gongga Mountain, or Minya Konka, at Tinong Village, Kangding City of southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The Geminid meteor shower, one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, reached its peak on Dec. 14. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
A member of a Chinese medical team provides free clinical services at an orphanage in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Dec. 13, 2025. Chinese medical teams in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar offered free clinical services to children at two orphanages in Dar es Salaam over the weekend, as part of a China-Africa joint initiative to promote the well-being of orphans. (Xinhua/Emmanuel Herman)
Artists perform during the closing event of China's 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the 9th National Special Olympic Games in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)
Runners participate in a Christmas themed Santa Run in San Jose, California, the United States on Dec. 14, 2025. (Photo by Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua)
Penguins are seen with a cruise ship in the background in Antarctica, Dec. 14, 2025. The Antarctic ice and snow melt in large quantities during the height of summer, when the weather is relatively mild and the days are long. It is not only the high season for penguins to mate and hatch their chicks, but also the best time for whale watching. (Photo by Yang Shu/Xinhua)
A woman mourns the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 15, 2025.
The death toll from a shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday has risen to 16, with a father and son identified as the attackers, police said Monday.
The deceased range in age from 10 to 87 years old and includes one of the attackers.
Another 40 people were being treated in hospital for their injuries as of Monday morning, five of whom were in critical condition. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)
