BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
Children watch lion dance performance in Xinghua of east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 8, 2024. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Feb. 7, 2024 shows people visiting a lantern fair to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival in the city of Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province. (Photo by Dong Jun/Xinhua)
People visit a night market in the ancient city of Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 5, 2024. With red lanterns decorated on streets, people can feel the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, in the ancient city of Kashgar. (Photo by Cai Zengle/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows a turquoise dragon-form artifact at Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing, capital of China. Unearthed from Erlitou site in the city of Luoyang, the turquoise dragon-form artifact has a total length over 70 centimeters and was formed from more than 2,000 pieces of turquoise. (Xinhua/Li He)
Nyanzin Drakpa and his team members make a curtain call after performances in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 4, 2024. Nyanzin Drakpa, a senior at the Communication University of China, set up a Tibetan-language talk show team in the summer of 2021, hoping to get more people to watch Tibetan language talk shows. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 1, 2024 shows Luo Deshu performing Yutan Dragon Dance with his team members in Fangdong Town, Luxian County of southwest China's Sichuan Province. Yutan Dragon Dance, a traditional Chinese dragon dance in Luxian County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is performed by local people to pray for good weather and harvest since the ancient time. In 2006, it was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
A child interacts with lion dance performers during a Chinese New Year celebration event in Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)
A displaced child is seen in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Photo by Zanem Nety Zaidi/Xinhua)
People mourn by the coffin of former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera at the former National Congress building in Santiago, Chile, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Jorge Villegas/Xinhua)
President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee Tony Estanguet attends the revealing ceremony at the Paris Olympic organizers in Saint-Denis, near Paris, France, Feb. 8, 2024. The medals awarded at this year's Paris Olympics and Paralympics will feature a hexagon-shaped piece of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower in their center, organizers said as they unveiled their design on Thursday. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)■
