XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025: AERIAL PHOTO (Part 2)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows a drone delivering a parcel over Chaohu Lake in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 23, 2025 shows farmers harvesting marigold flowers in Tengchong, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo by Gong Zujin/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 15, 2025, shows a first-stage propulsion system test for the Tianlong-3 liquid carrier rocket conducted on an offshore launch pad at the Haiyang Oriental Aerospace Port in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 26, 2025 shows the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou's mountainous terrain, is the world's highest bridge. It opened to traffic on Sept. 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
A drone photo taken on Oct. 21, 2025 shows harvesters harvesting rice in a paddy field, with a high-speed train in the background, in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 23, 2025 shows a staff member transporting newly-picked apples at an orchard in Alaer City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 24, 2025 shows vehicles running on a road lined by trees at Guankou Village of Qianjiang District in Chongqing, southwest China. (Photo by Yang Min/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 8, 2025 shows a view of China's Huangyan Dao national nature reserve in the South China Sea. The official website of China's central government (www.gov.cn) on Sept. 10, 2025 posted the State Council's approval of the request by the Ministry of Natural Resources for the establishment of the Huangyan Dao national nature reserve, agreeing to the establishment of the nature reserve. (Xinhua/Bei He)
A drone photo shows egrets foraging at a reservoir in the Kazak Autonomous County of Aksay in northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 9, 2025. (Photo by Gao Hongshan/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Nov. 9, 2025 shows folk artists performing with traditional fish-shaped lanterns in Chengkan Village, Huangshan, east China's Anhui Province. (Xinhua/Cao Li)
A drone photo taken on Nov. 13, 2025 shows a view of the Himalayas in Tingri County of Xigaze, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 22, 2025 shows a view in Zhongyi Township, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 4, 2025 shows the construction site of the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the world's largest ice and snow theme park, in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Liu Yang/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 5, 2025 shows research icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2 (front) conducting China's 42nd Antarctic expedition. (Photo by Chen Dongbin/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 6, 2025 shows a flock of birds at a wetland park in Xinghua, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 9, 2025 shows Kiangs (Equus kiang) running on grasslands at the Altun Mountains National Nature Reserve in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Xin Yuewei)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 12, 2025 shows the snow scenery of the Wangwu Mountain scenic spot in Jiyuan City, central China's Henan Province. (Photo by Duan Erping/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 14, 2025 shows tourists enjoying snow scenery of the Huangshan Mountain scenic area at sunrise in east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 15, 2025 shows vessels loading and unloading containers at a container dock of Tangshan Port in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Dec. 16, 2025 shows a constructor working on a power transmission line in east China's Anhui Province. The main-body construction of the 500-kV power transmission line from Xiangjian to Ludao in Anhui Province was successfully completed on Dec. 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Mu)
An aerial drone photo shows a vessel carrying 179,000 tonnes of petrochemical raw materials berthing at Yangpu Port in Danzhou, south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 18, 2025. China on Dec. 18, 2025 launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP). A vessel carrying petrochemical raw materials arrived at Yangpu Port in the morning, marking the first batch of zero-tariff petrochemical raw materials to undergo special customs clearance there after the launch of the special customs operations. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 20, 2025 shows visitors enjoying a night urban view at the Jinwan Yunding sightseeing deck in Heping District of Tianjin, north China. (Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 21, 2025 shows a race car drifting on ice at an ice and snow sports base in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 21, 2025 shows the offshore oil and gas platforms in the Bohai Oilfield. China's largest offshore oilfield, the Bohai Oilfield, has produced over 40 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2025, setting a historical record, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced on Dec. 21, 2025. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 23, 2025 shows a view of the Urumqi-Yuli Expressway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The 22.13-km Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, officially opened to traffic on Dec. 26, 2025. The tunnel is part of the G0711 Urumqi-Yuli Expressway, which was put into operation on the same day and serves as a vital artery linking city clusters in northern and southern Xinjiang. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows the Yellow Crane Tower at sunrise in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)■