Xinhua Photo Daily | Oct. 4, 2023

BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.

Zhao Huabiao (R), a member of a Chinese expedition team, sets up an automatic meteorological station with a colleague at the altitude of 6,450 meters on Mount Cho Oyu, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua)

This aerial photo taken on Sept. 21, 2023 shows the Dayudu water lifting project in Ruicheng County of Yuncheng City, north China's Shanxi Province. Dayudu of Ruicheng County is named after Dayu, a legendary Chinese flood control hero who had lived and worked there more than 4,000 years ago. Overlooking the Yellow River, local residents used to suffer from drought for a long time until the Dayudu water lifting project was set up in the 1970s. Pumping stations at the irrigation area in Dayudu have witnessed constant upgrading, expansion and transformation in recent years to satisfy growing need for water, and Ruicheng itself has also turned a leading grain-producing county in China. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

This aerial photo taken on Oct. 3, 2023 shows tourists enjoying the scenery of the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River, on the border area between north China's Shanxi and northwest China's Shaanxi provinces. (Photo by Lyu Guiming/Xinhua)

This aerial photo taken on Oct. 3, 2023 shows the Beibu Gulf Port in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

Photo taken on Oct. 3, 2023 in Arlington, the United States, shows a screen displaying the U.S. House of Representatives voting on a motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the United States. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy in an unprecedented move amid Republican infighting, after McCarthy relied on Democratic votes to pass a "clean" stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

Portraits of Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023 Pierre Agostini (L), Ferenc Krausz (C) and Anne L'Huillier are shown on a screen during the prize announcement at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3, 2023. Three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced here Tuesday. (Photo by Wei Xuechao/Xinhua)

This photo taken on Oct. 3, 2023 with a mobile phone shows emergency staff members on duty at the shopping mall where a shooting took place in Bangkok, Thailand. A suspected gunman was arrested following a shooting at a renowned shopping mall in downtown Bangkok that killed at least two people and injured five others on Tuesday, police said.(Xinhua/Wang Teng)

A Sri Lankan stilt fisherman is seen working in Galle, Sri Lanka, Oct. 3, 2023. Stilt fishing is a method of fishing unique to the island country of Sri Lanka. Local fishermen sit on a crossbar called "petta", which is tied to a vertical pole driven into the sand a few meters offshore. From that position, a fisherman will cast his rod and wait until a fish takes the bait. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)

Chen Guanfeng, Xie Zhenye, Yan Haibin and Chen Jiapeng (from L to R) of Team China celebrate after the Men's 4 x 100m Relay Final of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 3, 2023. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)

Quan Hongchan of China competes during Women's 10m Platform Final of Diving at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 3, 2023. (Xinhua/Xia Yifang)■