XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2025: AERIAL PHOTO (Part 1)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 6, 2025 shows a partial view of the Shichengzi photovoltaic power station in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Photo by Feng Yang/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 9, 2025 shows police officers patrolling on the ice-covered Qinghai Lake in Gangcha County of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 12, 2025 shows “Shenlan 2” ®, China's self-developed large deep-sea fish farming equipment, cooperating with an aquaculture vessel to collect fish at a fish farming experimental area of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 14, 2025 shows bullet trains at a maintenance base in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province. China's 2025 Spring Festival travel rush began on this day. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)
An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 22, 2025 shows people writing Spring Festival couplets in Guitou Village of Daoxian County in Yongzhou, central China's Hunan Province. (Photo by Jiang Keqing/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Jan. 29, 2025 shows folk artists performing a molten iron firework show in Nanyue District of Hengyang, central China's Hunan Province. (Photo by Cao Zhengping/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 9, 2025 shows the snow-covered Helan Mountains seen from an amusement park in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 22, 2025 shows a train running past blooming plum flowers in Shushan District of Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Chen Sanhu/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 27, 2025 shows the Sakyamuni Pagoda of Fogong Temple in Yingxian County, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Zhang Keren)
An aerial drone photo taken on March 8, 2025 shows farmers planting aquatic plants in a crayfish field of a demonstration base in Xuyi County, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Gu Jihong/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows a view of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall at dawn in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
An aerial drone photo taken on May 5, 2025 shows rescuers carrying out search and rescue operations after a boat capsizing accident in Qianxi City, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
A drone photo taken on May 8, 2025 shows agricultural machinery ready to sow soybeans in a dryland of a farming company under the Beidahuang Group in Shuangyashan, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
A drone photo taken on May 20, 2025 shows the scenery at a salt lake in Yuncheng, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)
An aerial drone photo taken on May 22, 2025 shows rescue work underway after a landslide in Qingyang Village of Guowa Township in Dafang County of Bijie, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 4, 2025 shows primary school students painting during an environmental protection-themed event in Xinghua City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 8, 2025 shows a worker harvesting brine shrimps on a salt lake in Yuncheng, north China's Shanxi Province. (Photo by Jiang Hua/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on June 14, 2025 shows herdsmen driving their livestock through the night on the way to a summer pasture on Ar Horqin Grassland, Chifeng, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)
A drone photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy led by the aircraft carrier Shandong arriving in Hong Kong, south China. (Photo by Pu Haiyang/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 5, 2025 shows tourists enjoying themselves at a water amusement park in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Photo by Wu Zheng/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on July 10, 2025 shows a statue of Chinese navigator and explorer Zheng He with sailboats participating in a sea cruising event in the background near a dock in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The year 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Maritime Day of China and the 620th anniversary of Zheng He's maritime voyages. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
A drone photo taken on July 10, 2025 shows two mausoleums of the Xixia Imperial Tombs in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. China's Xixia Imperial Tombs were officially added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on July 11, 2025 during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Paris, France. The inscription brings the total number of World Heritage sites in China to 60. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 18, 2025 shows a section of the Tarim Desert Highway and the shelterbelt planted along it in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The 522-km highway runs across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert. (Xinhua/Meng Tao)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2025 shows tourists visiting the Heidu Mountain scenic spot in Lenghu Town, Mangya City of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Qi Zhiyue)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 31, 2025 shows a view of a jasmine garden in Hengzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)■