XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025: CHINA NEWS (Part 2)
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Guard of Honor formation marches during a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)
The hero units' banner formation marches through Tian'anmen Square during a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Liu Yongzhen)
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Guard of Honor formation attends a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
The formation of the People's Armed Police Force marches through Tian'anmen Square during a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Li Ming)
Veterans salute while attending a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
This photo taken on Sept. 3, 2025 shows the fighter jets echelon. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Bai Xueqi)
Pigeons and balloons are released into the sky over Tian'anmen Square in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)
A soldier smiles as he makes preparations before a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)
Troops make preparations before a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Sept. 3 held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Luo Yuan)
Ren Dabing (3rd R) accompanies students to take a ferry boat to cross the Huayuan River between southwest China's Guizhou Province and central China's Hunan Province on their way to school, Sept. 9, 2025. Ren is a teacher at Molao Youyi Primary School in Molao Village of Hunan Province. The village lies along the Huayuan River, which forms the border with Wansen Village in Guizhou Province. To attend this school, which was jointly established and is managed by the two provinces, students from Wansen Village must take a ferry across the river. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Cheng Maoyou, a Chinese People's Volunteer (CPV) army veteran in the 1950-53 Korean War, salutes the martyrs' tombs at the CPV martyrs' cemetery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 10, 2025. Cheng, together with other CPV army veterans including Nan Qixiang and Xie Lisong, visited the CPV martyrs' cemetery to pay tribute to martyrs on Sept. 10. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)
Primary students participate in a campus activity at Kunshan Yucai School in Artux City, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 12, 2025. (Xinhua/Cheng Li)
Border guards patrol at Saz Village of Jigin Town in Wuqia County, Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Kizilsu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 12, 2025. Kizilsu Prefecture is located in the westernmost part of China, with a total border line of 1,133.7 kilometers. Jigin Town in Wuqia County lies at the westernmost point of the prefecture and is known as the “First Township in the Western Frontier.” (Xinhua/Cheng Li)
This photo taken on Sept. 14, 2025 shows a section of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link at sunrise in south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)
Students participate in a relay race on the playground at Lafu Primary School in Dai-Lahu-Va Autonomous County of Menglian in Pu'er City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 15, 2025. The school has gained attention as a “zero myopia” school. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo)
A visitor sheds tears at the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 18, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
Aircraft of China's Red Falcon Aerobatic Team perform during the 2025 aviation open-day activities of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force and Changchun Air Show in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Sept. 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)
A humanoid robot performs boxing with a visitor during the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo at the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhou Tinglu)
People of various ethnic groups welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, and a delegation at the Urumqi Tianshan International Airport and in Urumqi's city proper, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 23, 2025. Xi, who led a central delegation, arrived in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Sept. 23, 2025 to attend activities marking the region's 70th founding anniversary. (Xinhua/Bi Xiaoyang)
This photo taken on Sept. 15, 2025 shows a scar left by a shell fragment on the abdomen of Wang Chengbin, a veteran of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Born in 1928, Wang joined the Eighth Route Army in 1944. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)
A drone photo taken on Sept. 28, 2025 shows a view of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the world's tallest bridge, opened to traffic on the morning of Sept. 28 after three years of construction. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ship Qi Jiguang passes by Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, south China, Sept. 30, 2025. PLA Navy ships Qi Jiguang and Yimengshan entered the waters of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on the morning of Sept. 30. The two vessels opened for public visits at the Stonecutters Island Navel Base. (Xinhua/Chen Duo)
A worker carries out grinding operations at the Bohai Oilfield in Binhai New Area, north China's Tianjin, Oct. 1, 2025. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
This image released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Oct. 1, 2025 shows a view of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside Earth, captured by the probe during its deep-space journey. (CNSA/Handout via Xinhua)
Members of Kanas border police station patrol along major ways in Altay Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 2, 2025. (Photo by Wang Youbo/Xinhua)
People watch a drone light show, a special event for the 2025 World Cities Day China Observance, in Nan'an District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Oct. 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)
This image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Nov. 1, 2025 shows a group picture of the crew of Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 spaceships. The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-21 spaceship entered the country's space station and met with another astronaut trio on the early morning of Nov. 1, 2025, starting a new round of in-orbit crew handover. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
A stacked composite photo taken on Nov. 4, 2025 in Changping District of China's capital Beijing shows the Chinese space station passing in front of the Moon. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
The commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, is held at a naval port in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province, Nov. 5, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 6, 2025 shows a staff member harvesting cranberries at a cranberry planting base in Fuyuan City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
A Lijian-1 Y9 carrier rocket carrying two technical experiment satellites blasts off from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China, Nov. 9, 2025. The rocket blasted off at 11:32 a.m. (Beijing Time) and successfully sent the satellites into the planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Nov. 12, 2025 shows a person watching the aurora in Heihe City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Qian Boyu/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Nov. 13, 2025 shows the reconstructed houses (those on higher terrain) that have been delivered to residents in Chagnag Village of Dingri County, Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. In January 2025, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Dingri County in the city of Xigaze, leveling thousands of houses. Ten months after the earthquake, more than 32,500 destroyed or damaged houses have been restored and handed over to affected residents, according to the authorities of Xigaze City. The restoration work covered 486 villages in seven counties, resulting in the reconstruction of more than 22,000 houses and the reinforcement of an additional 10,500 homes. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 14, 2025 shows law enforcers of the China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel Huangyan conducting a patrol in the territorial waters of China's Huangyan Dao. (Xinhua/Bei He)
The first vehicle under the Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles scheme undergoes inspection at the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in south China, Nov. 14, 2025. According to the scheme, eligible and approved private cars from Guangdong are permitted to park (the vehicles do not enter Hong Kong) at the automated carparks on the artificial island at the Hong Kong Port via the Zhuhai Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge starting from 0:00 a.m. on No. 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Huang Guobao)
China's first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, PLANS Sichuan, sets sail from the port of Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. in east China's Shanghai, Nov. 14, 2025. PLANS Sichuan set sail from Shanghai on the morning of Nov. 14, 2025 to conduct its first navigation test mission. (Photo by Zhang Liang/Xinhua)
This photo shows a carrier-based aircraft J-15DT during a catapult-assisted takeoff on China's aircraft carrier Fujian. The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) on Nov. 18, 2025 said the aircraft carrier formation of the PLANS Fujian has conducted the carrier's first on-sea live-force training since its commissioning. (Photo by Gao Zeming/Xinhua)
A Long March-2F Y22 rocket carrying the Shenzhou-22 spaceship blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Nov. 25, 2025. About 10 minutes after the launch, the spaceship separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit. The China Manned Space Agency declared the launch mission a complete success. (Photo by Ge Lixin/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Dec. 1, 2025 shows the sunset scenery pictured on the China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel Huangyan patrolling in the territorial waters of China's Huangyan Dao. (Xinhua/Bei He)
Two male Tibetan antelopes fight during the mating season at the Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Dec. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
A person in fisherman outfit walks on the tidal flats in Dongbi Village in Sansha Town, Xiapu County, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)
This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 9, 2025 shows Shenzhou-21 astronauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei ® performing extravehicular activities outside China's orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-21 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's first series of extravehicular activities on Dec. 9, 2025, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The astronaut trio – Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang – worked for approximately eight hours and completed their tasks at 6:45 p.m. (Beijing Time). Zhang Lu and Wu Fei, tasked with conducting spacewalk operations, completed the inspection and photography of the Shenzhou-20 return capsule's viewport window, the installation of a debris protection device for the space station, and the replacement of the multilayer cover on the thermal control adapter, according to the CMSA. (Xinhua/Liu Yi)
This combo photo shows portraits of some survivors of the Nanjing Massacre (portraits of the deceased are in black and white). As of 2025, the number of living registered survivors of the Nanjing Massacre has dwindled to just 24. The Nanjing Massacre refers to a period of history that started when Japanese troops captured the then Chinese capital on Dec. 13, 1937. In the space of six weeks, the Japanese invaders killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing, Ji Chunpeng, Li Xiang)
Children have fun at the Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) Park amid snowfall in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 12, 2025. (Xinhua/Hu Jingwen)
This stack composite photo taken on Dec. 13, 2025 shows the starry sky over Baisha Town of Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The Geminid meteor shower, one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, reached its peak on Dec. 14, 2025. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
The 27th edition of Harbin Ice-Snow World, world's largest ice and snow theme park, officially opens to visitors in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 17, 2025. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
A billboard for the launch of island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) is seen in Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 17, 2025. China on Dec. 18, 2025 launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan FTP. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Soldiers from a battalion of a brigade of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force participate in a combat launch training under complex conditions. (Photo by Liu Mingsong/Xinhua)
Residents perform Ansai waist-drum, a traditional drum dance, at Yan'an Station along the Xi'an-Yan'an high-speed railway in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 26, 2025. The Xi'an-Yan'an high-speed railway opened on Dec. 26, 2025, linking Yan'an, the sacred revolutionary heartland, to the country's rapidly expanding high-speed rail network. (Photo by Liu Yijiang/Xinhua)■