BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
A C919 aircraft passes through a water gate at the Yinchuan Hedong International Airport in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Oct. 20, 2026. China's homegrown C919 large passenger aircraft landed at the airport at 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday after departing from Changsha in central China's Hunan Province, marking the aircraft's first commercial passenger flight to Yinchuan. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)A visitor views products at the China Brands Export Expo in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Oct. 20, 2026. The three-day expo kicked off here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)A staff member clears bamboo slips at the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 19, 2026. Established in 2003, the cultural relics protection center in Jingzhou undertakes the conservation of about 80 percent of China's waterlogged bamboo and wooden slips. The center has developed comprehensive conservation techniques for such slips, covering sectors from archaeological excavation and laboratory conservation to display and storage. To date, the center has provided technical support in cultural relic conservation to more than 130 cultural and museum institutions across the country, and has restored more than 10,000 lacquered wooden artifacts, over 180,000 bamboo and wooden slips, and more than 1,100 textile artifacts. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)A mouse wearing Airscope explores in a habitat built in a laboratory at Tsinghua University in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 19, 2026. Chinese scientists have developed a wireless microscope weighing only 1 gram that can record neural activity in the mouse cerebral cortex with single-cell resolution in natural environments. Named Airscope, the device was developed by a team led by Dai Qionghai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at Tsinghua University, in collaboration with researchers from other institutions. Details of the achievement were published in Nature on Monday. (Xinhua/Wei Mengjia)This drone photo taken on Oct. 20, 2026 shows workers taking care of the kelp seedlings at a kelp seedling cultivation area of a marine farm in Rongcheng City, east China's Shandong Province. Kelp farms in Rongcheng are cultivating kelp seedlings in preparation for the upcoming large-scale planting season. (Photo by Li Xinjun/Xinhua)Players of gold medalist team China, silver medalist team Thailand and bronze medalist team South Korea interact during the awarding ceremony for foil mixed team final of Fencing at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games in Nagoya, Japan, Oct. 20, 2026. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)This photo taken on Oct. 20, 2026 shows an exterior view of the Broadcasting House of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, Britain. The BBC reported Tuesday it will close its BBC Three and BBC Scotland television channels in the spring, as the corporation continues to make 500 million pounds (669 million U.S. dollars) of savings over two years. (Xinhua/Li Mangmang)People holding signs attend a protest rally in front of the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 19, 2026. Japanese citizens staged a protest rally in front of the National Diet in Tokyo on Monday evening, opposing the military buildup and constitutional revision drive of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government and calling for the preservation of peace. (Xinhua/Liang Chen)Rescue boats spray water to extinguish fire on the ferry near Merak Besar Island in Banten Province, Indonesia, Oct. 20, 2026. A passenger ferry caught fire in waters off Merak, at the western tip of Indonesia's Java island, on Tuesday afternoon, with evacuation efforts underway, the Banten Search and Rescue Agency told Xinhua. The ferry caught fire near Merak Besar Island in Banten province, the agency said, adding that authorities were focusing on evacuating those aboard. The number of passengers and crew on board, possible casualties and the cause of the fire were not immediately known. (Photo by Al Farabi/Xinhua)■
