China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, docks in east China's Shanghai on April 30, 2024. China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, set out for maiden sea trials on Wednesday morning.
Since its launch in June 2022, the Fujian has completed its mooring trials, outfitting work and equipment adjustments. It has met the technical requirements for sea trials. (Xinhua/Li Yun)
Guo Hanzhong cleans a bronze mask at Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 25, 2024. Guo Hanzhong is the vice head of the cultural relics storage department of the Sanxingdui Museum in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The 56-year-old man is skilled in the craft of restoring cultural relics. In the past 40 years, he has restored more than 6,000 cultural relic items and was deeply involved in the excavation of all the eight "sacrificial pits" found at Sanxingdui Ruins site.
After the completion of the field work in the Sanxingdui Ruins site, sorting, protection and restoration of newly unearthed cultural relics have become the most important work in the current research.
"There are probably tens of thousands of relics waiting to be restored, and I can't finish the job in my generation. It needs to be done from generation to generation," Guo Hanzhong said, "Repairing cultural relics needs experience. And I will try my best to pass on what I have learned to younger generations, and cultivate more talents." (Xinhua/Liu Kun)
This photo taken on April 29, 2024 shows the solar PV plant built by China's Dongfang Electric Corporation in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (Dongfang Electric Corporation/Handout via Xinhua)
Humanitarian aid dropped by a plane is seen over the Gaza Strip on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Abdul Rahman Salama/Xinhua)
Rescuers work at the site of an expressway collapse accident on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, May 1, 2024. The death toll has risen to 36 after part of an expressway collapsed in south China's Guangdong Province on early Wednesday morning.
The incident happened around 2:10 a.m. on the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou. The collapsed section is 17.9 meters long and covers an area of 184.3 square meters, officials said. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
A staff member cleans the body of a bullet train at a train maintenance workshop in Nanning City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 1, 2024. International Workers' Day is observed annually on May 1. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)
A staff member works at the Tanggu offshore platform area of the Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. in north China's Tianjin Municipality, May 1, 2024. International Workers' Day is observed annually on May 1. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
Tourists visit the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot in the city of Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 1, 2024. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang/Xinhua)
Spectators watch the final match between Qiandongnan team and Tongren City team on the closing day of the 1st Guizhou's "Gu-Ma Basketball" Invitational in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 1, 2024.
Ethnic minority women in southwest China's Guizhou Province have started playing basketball in a manner similar to football, allowing them to run with the ball on the court without being called for fouls such as hacking and elbowing. Local people refer to this type of basketball game as "Gu-Ma Basketball," as its participants are mainly women who have married elsewhere. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Staff members check on the transportation cage accommodating giant panda Zhu Yu in Madrid, Spain, April 29, 2024. A giant panda couple has arrived in Spain on a direct flight from China. They were set to be kept at zoo in the Spanish capital city of Madrid for the next few years, the zoo announced on Tuesday.
On an exclusive flight from the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, the couple, named Jin Xi and Zhu Yu, landed on Monday at the cargo terminal of the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas International Airport, the Madrid Zoo Aquarium said. (Madrid Zoo Aquarium/Handout via Xinhua)
