Xinhua photos of the day

Children run with blessing signs in hand at a kindergarten in Xinghua City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Sept. 26, 2024. Various activities are held at kindergartens and primary schools across the country to welcome the upcoming 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 26, 2024 shows kids jointly creating a painting commemorating the upcoming 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at a kindergarten in Tonggu County of Yichun City, east China’s Jiangxi Province. (Photo by Zhou Liang/Xinhua)

Lu Jianying, an inheritor of Suzhou embroidery, embroiders an intricate image of leaves at a Suzhou embroidery training studio in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Sept. 25, 2024. Born to a family specializing in the Suzhou embroidery craft, Lu began learning basic embroidery skills from her grandmother when she was eight, and has now been making embroidery for more than 30 years.
Lu brings animals and flowers to life with her exquisite needlework, and she has also made a name for herself by turning ancient Chinese paintings into pieces of embroidery. Many of her works have been included in museum and gallery collections. (Xinhua/Xia Peng)

A visitor poses for photos at a photo exhibition on China’s historic transformation held by Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 26, 2024. China’s national news agency, Xinhua, on Thursday opened a photo exhibition documenting the historic transformation of the country over the past decades.
The exhibition opened at the National Financial Information Center in Beijing just days before Oct. 1, when the People’s Republic of China marks its 75th founding anniversary.
On display are nearly 500 photographs spanning various historical periods, selected from Xinhua’s collection of over 10 million images, the largest photo archive in the country. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)

Giant panda An An is unloaded from the plane at the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, south China, Sept. 26, 2024. A pair of giant pandas gifted by the central government to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of China arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport on Thursday morning.
At around 13:00 p.m., the pandas were driven to Ocean Park Hong Kong witnessed by dozens of local fans waving panda-shaped balloons and cardboard cutouts. They will spend time in quarantine and adapt to the new environment before their scheduled public debut in December.
The two pandas, named An An and Ke Ke, were both born in June 2019. They are the third pair of giant pandas the HKSAR has received as gifts from the central government. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)

People enjoy a drone show at a park in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, Sept. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)

A worker is seen busy on top of a salt stack at Daqinghe salt fields in Tangshan, north China’s Hebei Province, Sept. 26, 2024. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)

An aerial photo taken on Sept. 25, 2024 shows a part of Lake Kulu in Konya, Türkiye. Lake Kulu is located some 5 km east of Konya Province’s Kulu district. Once a haven for rose flamingos and other migratory birds on their way to Africa, it has already dried up due to groundwater overuse and climate change. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)

Robots perform dance at a booth during the third Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2024. The third Global Digital Trade Expo opened in Hangzhou on Wednesday, showcasing the latest technological innovations and business development of the digital economy sector. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)

People transfer unidentified bodies to a grave in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Sept. 26, 2024. On Wednesday, the Gaza-based health authorities reported receiving about 88 unidentified bodies from the Israeli side, adding the Israeli side did not provide any information about their identities, the locations where they were recovered, or the time of death. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

A guide introduces exhibits at a photo exhibition on China’s historic transformation held by Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 26, 2024. China’s national news agency, Xinhua, on Thursday opened a photo exhibition documenting the historic transformation of the country over the past decades.
The exhibition opened at the National Financial Information Center in Beijing just days before Oct. 1, when the People’s Republic of China marks its 75th founding anniversary.
On display are nearly 500 photographs spanning various historical periods, selected from Xinhua’s collection of over 10 million images, the largest photo archive in the country. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei)

This photo taken on Sept. 25, 2024 shows the newly installed first test prototype of the Core Array of China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope under the starry sky in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.
Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the launch of China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). On the same day, the construction of the Core Array of FAST started, highlighting China’s growing potential in global radio astronomy research. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)