An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 22, 2025 shows people writing Spring Festival couplets in Guitou Village of Daoxian County in Yongzhou, central China's Hunan Province. (Photo by Jiang Keqing/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025 shows the snow-covered Helan Mountains seen from an amusement park in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 8, 2025 shows farmers planting aquatic plants in a crayfish field of a demonstration base in Xuyi County, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Gu Jihong/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 8, 2025 shows a worker harvesting brine shrimps on a salt lake in Yuncheng, north China's Shanxi Province. (Photo by Jiang Hua/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 14, 2025 shows bullet trains at a maintenance base in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province. China's 2025 Spring Festival travel rush began on this day. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 6, 2025 shows a partial view of the Shichengzi photovoltaic power station in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Feng Yang/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Jan. 29, 2025 shows folk artists performing a molten iron firework show in Nanyue District of Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province. (Photo by Cao Zhengping/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 12, 2025 shows "Shenlan 2" (R), China's self-developed large deep-sea fish farming equipment, cooperating with an aquaculture vessel to collect fish at a fish farming experimental area of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 4, 2025 shows primary school students painting during an environmental protection-themed event in Xinghua City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 9, 2025 shows police officers patrolling on the ice-covered Qinghai Lake in Gangcha County of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 22, 2025 shows a train running past blooming plum flowers in Shushan District of Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Chen Sanhu/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 5, 2025 shows tourists enjoying themselves at a water amusement park in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Photo by Wu Zheng/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 27, 2025 shows the Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Yingxian County, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Keren)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 14, 2025 shows herdsmen driving their livestock through the night on the way to a summer pasture on Ar Horqin Grassland, Chifeng, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)
A drone photo taken on July 10, 2025 shows a statue of Chinese navigator and explorer Zheng He with sailboats participating in a sea cruising event in the background near a dock in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The year 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Maritime Day of China and the 620th anniversary of Zheng He's maritime voyages. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
A drone photo taken on May 20, 2025 shows the scenery at a salt lake in Yuncheng, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
An aerial drone photo taken on May 22, 2025 shows rescue work underway after a landslide in Qingyang Village of Guowa Township in Dafang County of Bijie, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows a view of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall at dawn in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
A drone photo taken on May 8, 2025 shows agricultural machinery ready to sow soybeans in a dryland of a farming company under the Beidahuang Group in Shuangyashan, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
An aerial drone photo taken on May 5, 2025 shows rescuers carrying out search and rescue operations after a boat capsizing accident in Qianxi City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
A drone photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy led by the aircraft carrier Shandong arriving in Hong Kong, south China. (Photo by Pu Haiyang/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 26, 2025 shows the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou's mountainous terrain, is the world's highest bridge. It opened to traffic on Sept. 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 31, 2025 shows a view of a jasmine garden in Hengzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows a drone delivering a parcel over Chaohu Lake in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)
A drone photo taken on July 10, 2025 shows two mausoleums of the Xixia Imperial Tombs in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. China's Xixia Imperial Tombs were officially added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 11, 2025 during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Paris, France. The inscription brings the total number of World Heritage sites in China to 60. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
A drone photo taken on Oct. 21, 2025 shows harvesters harvesting rice in a paddy field, with a high-speed train in the background, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 18, 2025 shows a section of the Tarim Desert Highway and the shelterbelt planted along it in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The 522-km highway runs across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert. (Xinhua/Meng Tao)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2025 shows tourists visiting the Heidu Mountain scenic spot in Lenghu Town, Mangya City of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Qi Zhiyue)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 24, 2025 shows vehicles running on a road lined by trees at Guankou Village of Qianjiang District in Chongqing, southwest China. (Photo by Yang Min/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 5, 2025 shows research icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2 (front) conducting China's 42nd Antarctic expedition. (Photo by Chen Dongbin/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 22, 2025 shows a view in Zhongyi Township, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025 shows a staff member transporting newly-picked apples at an orchard in Alaer City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 6, 2025 shows a flock of birds at a wetland park in Xinghua, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Nov. 13, 2025 shows a view of the Himalayas in Tingri County of Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
A drone photo shows egrets foraging at a reservoir in the Kazak Autonomous County of Aksay in northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 9, 2025. (Photo by Gao Hongshan/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 15, 2025, shows a first-stage propulsion system test for the Tianlong-3 liquid carrier rocket conducted on an offshore launch pad at the Haiyang Oriental Aerospace Port in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 23, 2025 shows farmers harvesting marigold flowers in Tengchong, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo by Gong Zujin/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 8, 2025 shows a view of China's Huangyan Dao national nature reserve in the South China Sea. The official website of China's central government (www.gov.cn) on Sept. 10, 2025 posted the State Council's approval of the request by the Ministry of Natural Resources for the establishment of the Huangyan Dao national nature reserve, agreeing to the establishment of the nature reserve. (Xinhua/Bei He)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 4, 2025 shows the construction site of the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the world's largest ice and snow theme park, in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Liu Yang/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Nov. 9, 2025 shows folk artists performing with traditional fish-shaped lanterns in Chengkan Village, Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Cao Li)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 9, 2025 shows Kiangs (Equus kiang) running on grasslands at the Altun Mountains National Nature Reserve in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Xin Yuewei)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 21, 2025 shows the offshore oil and gas platforms in the Bohai Oilfield. China's largest offshore oilfield, the Bohai Oilfield, has produced over 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2025, setting a historical record, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Dec. 21, 2025. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 20, 2025 shows visitors enjoying a night urban view at the Jinwan Yunding sightseeing deck in Heping District of Tianjin, north China. (Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 12, 2025 shows the snow scenery of the Wangwu Mountain scenic spot in Jiyuan City, central China's Henan Province. (Photo by Duan Erping/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows the Yellow Crane Tower at sunrise in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 14, 2025 shows tourists enjoying snow scenery of the Huangshan Mountain scenic area at sunrise in east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows a constructor working on a power transmission line in east China's Anhui Province. The main-body construction of the 500-kV power transmission line from Xiangjian to Ludao in Anhui Province was successfully completed on Dec. 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 15, 2025 shows vessels loading and unloading containers at a container dock of Tangshan Port in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo shows a vessel carrying 179,000 tonnes of petrochemical raw materials berthing at Yangpu Port in Danzhou, south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 18, 2025. China on Dec. 18, 2025 launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP). A vessel carrying petrochemical raw materials arrived at Yangpu Port in the morning, marking the first batch of zero-tariff petrochemical raw materials to undergo special customs clearance there after the launch of the special customs operations. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 21, 2025 shows a race car drifting on ice at an ice and snow sports base in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 23, 2025 shows a view of the Urumqi-Yuli Expressway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The 22.13-km Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, officially opened to traffic on Dec. 26, 2025. The tunnel is part of the G0711 Urumqi-Yuli Expressway, which was put into operation on the same day and serves as a vital artery linking city clusters in northern and southern Xinjiang. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)
