BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
Staff members pose for a group photo as they celebrate the completion of the drilling of “Shenditake 1,” an ultra-deep borehole reaching 10,910 meters, in the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert in the Tarim Basin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 20, 2025. China National Petroleum Corporation announced Thursday that it has completed the drilling of the deepest vertical well in Asia, as a borehole reached a depth of 10,910 meters in China's northwestern desert. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
Wang Jianwei (front), a professor at Peking University, displays a silicon-based photonic quantum chip wafer while posing for photos with his team members in a laboratory of Peking University in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 18, 2025. Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in integrated photonic quantum chips by demonstrating the first “continuous-variable” quantum multipartite entanglement and cluster states on the chip. The research, led by scientists from Peking University and Shanxi University, was published in the latest issue of Nature. (Xinhua)
People stop to watch a sculpture of giant panda “Qizai” at the departure hall of Terminal 5 of Xianyang International Airport in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Feb. 20, 2025. The Terminal 5 of the Xianyang International Airport was officially put into operation on Thursday. Covering an area of 705,500 square meters, which is bigger than the total areas of the T1, T2 and T3 terminals, Terminal 5 allows the same floor departure of domestic and international passengers. It also sets up a museum to display cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)
A college student learns to make a piece of Kesi work with water ripple patterns at a silk art exhibition hall transformed from a silkworm farm in Moganshan Town of Deqing County, Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 19, 2025. Kesi, one of traditional Chinese silk tapestries, is created by unique silk-weaving method with distinct warp and weft technique. (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)
A group of 200 Chinese citizens suspected of involvement in fraud returned to China under the escort of Chinese police on Feb. 20, 2025 after being repatriated from Myawaddy in Myanmar. The suspects were first sent to Thailand before being flown back to China on several chartered flights, which arrived at an airport in Nanjing, the capital of eastern Jiangsu Province. The repatriation of these suspects marks a significant achievement of law enforcement cooperation between China, Myanmar and Thailand against telecom fraud, according to a statement by the Ministry of Public Security. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)
Zhao Rui of China reacts after scoring during the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers Group C match between China and Japan in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 20, 2025. The Chinese men's basketball team won 100-58 over Japan in a Group C game of the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers on Thursday evening, securing its place in the Asia Cup. (Xinhua/Wang Kaiyan)
People watch the performance of a robotic dog launched by Chinese company Unitree Robotics, at the Future of Media Exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 20, 2025. A lively crowd frequently erupted into cheers and laughter, as a Chinese robot dog captivated onlookers with its dance moves at the Future of Media Exhibition, which was held alongside the Saudi Media Forum in Riyadh from Wednesday to Friday. (Xinhua/Yin Ke)
The screenshot from a video shows the scene of a bus explosion in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 20, 2025. Three empty buses exploded simultaneously Thursday night in Israel's Tel Aviv area, while explosive devices were found on at least two others before they could detonate, in what police said was a “suspected terror attack.” (Xinhua)
People react as they watch the televised broadcast of the handover of the bodies of Israeli hostages at a square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Feb. 20, 2025. Palestinian armed groups on Thursday morning handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages killed in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli war to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team, Palestinian sources said. (Tomer Neuberg/JINI via Xinhua)
Palestinians are pictured among destroyed houses in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 18, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)■
