BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 8, 2026 shows a view of the Chuanshan area of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, east China's Zhejiang Province. The Ningbo-Zhoushan Port saw its cargo throughput surpassing 1.4 billion tonnes in 2025, ranking the first globally for the 17th consecutive year, according to the port. As a key hub of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port has continued to expand its global reach. By the end of 2025, the port had offered more than 300 container shipping routes linking over 700 ports in more than 200 countries and regions. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 8, 2026 shows a view of the northern home port of Meng Xiang, China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, at Aoshan Bay in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The northern home port of the deep-ocean drilling vessel Meng Xiang has been officially put into use in Aoshan Bay of Qingdao recently. (Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua)
Cering Lhamo holds her one-month-old daughter Yanggim Lhamo in Tingri County of Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, on Jan. 5, 2026. In January 2025, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tingri County in Xigaze, leveling thousands of houses. Among those affected was Cering Lhamo, a young mother in Tonglai Village of Tingri County, who lost her 3-year-old child in the disaster. Within three days of the earthquake, Xizang launched a post-disaster reconstruction plan and began preliminary work, which included housing design, surveying and debris clearance. Just two months later, the reconstruction began. In October 2025, Cering Lhamo's new house has been completed and handed over. She was pregnant and was expecting in December. “When I give birth to my child, we will already be living in our new house,” she said, hope glittering in her eyes. Now, one year after the earthquake, Cering Lhamo has embraced a new beginning. Her baby girl is one month old, and her older daughter, whom she was carrying in her arms after the earthquake hit, is running in their new house. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 8, 2026 shows people attending the opening ceremony of the 24th Chagan Lake Ice and Snow Fishing and Hunting Cultural Tourism Festival in Songyuan, northeast China's Jilin Province. The 24th Chagan Lake Ice and Snow Fishing and Hunting Cultural Tourism Festival opened here on Thursday. Traditional fishing techniques are performed on the lake, such as manual ice-chiseling, horse-drawn winches, and net-hauling beneath the ice-cover lake. Chagan Lake's ice fishing, a national intangible cultural heritage, has become a significant symbol of ice and snow culture in northeast China. (Xinhua/Yan Linyun)
People participate in a rally in Caracas, Venezuela on Jan. 7, 2026. A demonstration was held in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Wednesday, in which participants advocated the defense of national sovereignty and demanded that the U.S. government release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. (Xinhua/Ding Hongfa)
This photo taken with a mobile phone shows civilians leaving areas in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods in Aleppo city, northern Syria, on Jan. 7, 2026. Crowds of residents were forced to flee the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, as clashes flared between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Str/Xinhua)
A car participates in the city cruise during the Summernats car festival in Canberra, Australia, Jan. 8, 2026. (Photo by Chu Chen/Xinhua)
Inter Milan's Hakan Calhanoglu kicks a corner during a Serie A football match between Parma and Inter Milan in Parma, Italy, Jan. 7, 2026. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua)■