A gala entitled "Joyful Songs of the Snowy Plateau Region" is held to mark the 60th founding anniversary of Xizang Autonomous Region, in regional capital Lhasa, Aug. 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
This photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows a street view in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
The streets of Lhasa are adorned with lanterns and decorations in celebration of the 60th founding anniversary of Xizang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 20, 2025 shows Jakub Morawski of Poland competes during the "Slackline King" Championship held in Zhangjiajie City, central China's Hunan Province. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
Chinese sailors wave good-bye during a fleet separation ceremony in waters of the western Pacific, Aug. 20, 2025.
Chinese and Russian naval fleets concluded a 15-day joint patrol following their separation in a sea area of the western Pacific on Wednesday morning.
The patrol was conducted after a joint exercise by the two navies in the sea and air spaces near Vladivostok, Russia, which took place from Aug. 1 to 5. (Photo by Liu Longqin/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows the scenery along the Mergel Gol River in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Ma Jinrui)
An aerial drone panoramic photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows the Urumqi-Yuli Expressway under construction tunneling through the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The 319.7-km-long Urumqi-Yuli Expressway, which runs from the regional capital of Urumqi in northern Xinjiang to Yuli County in southern Xinjiang, is expected to get ready for traffic by the end of this year. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 19, 2025 shows the supporting new energy project of the Ningxia-Hunan ±800 kV ultra-high voltage (UHV) direct current transmission project, in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The Ningxia-Hunan ±800 kV UHV direct current transmission project, which brings electricity from northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to central China's Hunan Province, was put into operation for power transmission on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)
Staff members inspect the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou intercity railway in east China's Zhejiang Province on early Aug. 20, 2025.
Staff members inspected and maintained several systems of the railway on early Wednesday to ensure the stable operation of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou intercity railway. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
A reveller attends a parade during the Debrecen Flower Carnival to celebrate the National Day in Debrecen, Hungary, Aug. 20, 2025. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)
Members of the National Guard patrol outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Aug. 19, 2025.
The U.S. state of Tennessee announced Tuesday that it is sending around 160 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., after U.S. President Donald Trump asserted that crime and homelessness have been out of control in the nation's capital. (Xinhua/Hu Yousong)
Participants take part in a training for the upcoming V-Day military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 12, 2025.
Participants are busy preparing for the upcoming V-Day military parade scheduled on Sept. 3 in Tian'anmen Square to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng)
