XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024: CHINA NEWS (Part 1)

XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2024: CHINA NEWS (Part 1)

Black-necked cranes, a species under first-class state protection in China, fly at sunrise at Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve in Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 1, 2024. (Photo by Zeng Sandong/Xinhua)

Police officers climb up a steep slope hand in hand during their patrol on the Heixiazi Island, a Sino-Russian border island, in Fuyuan, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 5, 2024. Since March 30, 2012, China has normalized public security management on the China's part of the island. (Xinhua/Chen Yichen)

A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying the Tianxing-1 02 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Jan. 11, 2024. The satellite was launched at 11:52 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit. (Photo by Wang Haixia/Xinhua)

A staff member of a protection station under the management bureau of Sanjiangyuan National Park is pictured with a rescued Tibetan antelope cub in Hoh Xil, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Jan. 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Hongxiang)

Rescuers work at the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 23, 2024. The landslide occurred in Liangshui Village at about 6 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

A worker views the rising moon at a platform of the Chengbei Oilfield in north China's Bohai Bay, Jan. 24, 2024. Put into operation in 1985, the Chengbei Oilfield is China's first modern offshore oilfield constructed in full accordance with international procedures and standards. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)

Passengers are pictured at Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 26, 2024, the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)

A mother holding her sleeping baby in arms waits for their train at Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 26, 2024, the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)

Criminal suspects escorted by Chinese police officers are pictured on a charter flight to China, Jan. 30, 2024. The Myanmar police handed six key leaders of Kokang telecom fraud gangs and four other major criminal suspects over to China on Jan. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

A man has his forehead touch his girlfriend's as he picks up her at a railway station in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 5, 2024, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

A maintenance worker checks the vault of the Laohugou Tunnel in Huangyuan County of Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Feb. 6, 2024. Maintenance workers here have to carry out deicing work to ensure safe operation of trains in this tunnel, where the average altitude reaches 3,100 meters, to address the potential danger due to low temperature in winter. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)

This photo taken on Feb. 7, 2024 shows the launch ceremony of the China's Qinling Station in Antarctica. China's Qinling Station in Antarctica, the country's fifth research station in the continent, started operation on Feb. 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhou Yuan)

A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the baby's footprint at a hospital in Yuping Dong Autonomous County of Tongren, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 10, 2024, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day. (Photo by Hu Panxue/Xinhua)

Tourists have fun at a historic and cultural block in Anshun, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 10, 2024, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day. (Photo by Chen Xi/Xinhua)

Monks prepare to uncover the large yellow curtain on a huge Thangka painting bearing the image of the Buddha during a grand Tibetan Buddhist event, known as the "sunning of the Buddha" ceremony, held at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe County of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Gansu Province, Feb. 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

People attend a "Wulong Xuhua" show, a kind of festive dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group, in Taijiang County of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 23, 2024. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

A man visits the new building of Yinxu Museum in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 26, 2024. The new building officially opened to the public on Feb. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Li An)

A Macao citizen (in red clothes), who was the first passenger to complete customs clearance after a new customs operation became effective in the Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone, speaks to the media at Hengqin port, south China's Guangdong Province, March 1, 2024. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

A horse tamer holding his daughter rides a horse at a tourism attraction in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)

Deputies to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) leave the Great Hall of the People after the closing meeting of the second session of the 14th NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)

A couple read their wedding vows written in Braille at the marriage registration center in Xicheng District of Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2024. It was the first time for China to provide Braille version of documents for marriage registration for visually impaired people. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)

This photo taken on March 20, 2024 shows an overpass at sunrise in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

Firefighters extinguish a forest fire that erupted on March 15, 2024, in Yajiang County of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 21, 2024. (Photo by Cheng Xueli/Xinhua)

Local villagers take a train of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 4 to sell their home-grown vegetables and fruits to urbanites in southwest China's Chongqing, March 27, 2024. The Rail Transit Line 4 in Chongqing is nicknamed the "pack basket line" for bringing convenience to local villagers who travel to sell their agricultural products in urban areas. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

The 76-year-old Shi Rongsheng wipes his tears while paying tributes to his father, Shi Wanzhong, at the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs' cemetery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 3, 2024. The senior Shi was a CPV soldier killed during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953). Through artifact identification, social investigations, military history research, and DNA comparisons, the remains of senior Shi were confirmed in January 2024. Since 2014, China and the Republic of Korea (ROK), in accordance with international laws and humanitarian principles, have completed 11 consecutive handovers of the remains of 981 CPV martyrs who died in the ROK. (Xinhua/Li Gang)

A staff member of the Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. works at the construction site of Tanggu offshore platform in north China's Tianjin, May 1, 2024. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)

A boat returns to the China Coast Guard vessel Huayang after a drill in the waters of China's Ren'ai Jiao, May 1, 2024. During this round of patrol task in the waters of China's Ren'ai Jiao, the law enforcers on Huayang and other China Coast Guard vessels worked firmly safeguarding China's territorial sea. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)

Rescuers work at the site of an expressway collapse on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, May 2, 2024. At about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, 2024, a landslide occurred in the Chayang section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Guangdong Province, causing multiple casualties. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)

A red-crowned crane guards its chick and egg at Zhalong National Nature Reserve in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 7, 2024. The reserve, dubbed the "home of red-crowned cranes" in China, serves as the world's largest habitat and reproduction base for wild red-crowned cranes. (Photo by Wang Yonggang/Xinhua)

Rangers keep warm by burning dung of wild yak at a camp during a patrol of the core areas at the Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, May 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)

A tourist walks towards a blooming azalea tree at the Wawu Mountain scenic spot in Hongya County of Meishan, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

Visitors look at a bronzeware at the Qin Han Museum of the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, May 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

Tourists view a white whale at Sunasia Ocean World in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Lei)

A woman visits an installation during the 20th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, May 24, 2024. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)

Farmers harvest wheat in the fields in Wulou Village in Shangshui County of Zhoukou, central China's Henan Province, May 25, 2024. (Photo by Gao Jianzhong/Xinhua)

A sea-borne variant of commercial rocket CERES-1 blasts off from the waters surrounding east China's Shandong Province, May 29, 2024. China on May 29, 2024 sent a sea-launched rocket into space, placing a group of four satellites into planned orbit. The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted this offshore mission. (Photo by Xie Jixiao/Xinhua)

A C919 jetliner flying from the Hong Kong International Airport receives a ceremonial water salute on its arrival at the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai, east China, June 1, 2024. The C919 jetliner kicked off its first overseas commercial chartered flight on June 1, 2024, providing a round-trip service between Shanghai and Hong Kong. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

A technician tests a piece of material at a workshop of Suzhou photoelectric technology research institute in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, June 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Ga)

Zhang Guimei (R), principal of the Huaping Senior High School for Girls, looks at her students returning school after they sit a national college entrance examination at a test site in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 7, 2024. Zhang, as the principal of a girls school in Yunnan's mountainous areas, has devoted herself to helping rural girls improve their lives and chase their dreams through education. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

Tourists visit an experience hall of Meishan Iron and Steel industrial cultural tourism zone in Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

Pregnant Tibetan antelopes are pictured at sunset in Changtang National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, June 16, 2024. The total population of Tibetan antelopes, a species in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under first-class state protection, has exceeded 300,000, over 200,000 of which are living in Changtang National Nature Reserve. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua)