XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2018
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XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2018: CHINA NEWS


Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to deputies to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, shakes hands with villagers as he visits Huopu, a new village for relocated residents from poor areas, in Jiefang Township in Zhaojue County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 11, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with villagers in Zhanqi Village of Pidu District in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 12, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)


Xi Jinping takes a public oath of allegiance to the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2018. Xi was elected Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, the national legislature. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, poses for a group photo with officers and soldiers on the missile destroyer Changsha on April 12, 2018. Xi reviewed the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the South China Sea and made a speech after the review. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the Chenglingji Hydrological Station, a major flood monitoring spot of the Yangtze River, for the ecological environment protection and economic development along China's longest river, in Yueyang City of central China's Hunan Province, April 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping awards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the first-ever Friendship Medal of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)


Chinese President Xi Jinping (C), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the farms and land reclamation administrative bureau of Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)


Chinese President Xi Jinping enters the venue of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Nov. 17, 2018. Xi delivered a keynote speech titled Jointly Charting a Course Toward a Brighter Future at the summit. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)


Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 1, 2018. President Xi attended a working dinner with President Trump in Buenos Aires. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, applauds for the personnel awarded with medals during a grand gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 18, 2018. Xi made an important speech at the gathering. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)


Military personnel start training after Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, issued an order at a mobilization meeting held by the commission on Jan. 3, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


China's research icebreaker Xuelong travels between sheets of floating ice in Antarctica, Jan. 3, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Dianliang)


Combo photo shows hands of women of four generations (R) and the four women at home in Wuying Village, a village of Miao ethnic group under joint administration of Rongshui County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Congjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 13, 2018. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)


Yu Dongqin (R) tries to say thanks to her husband Duan Rongxian at home in Duanwan Village of Xinyang City, central China's Henan Province, April 30, 2018. Duan has taken care of his paralysed wife, who also has difficulty in speaking, for over 40 years. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)


Photo taken on Feb. 1, 2018 shows bullet trains waiting to be maintained in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)


Jijue Jizhu goes downhill with his younger brother on his shoulder, to take the bus heading to his grandpa's new dwelling in Yuexi County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 2, 2018. Jijue Jizhu, 9, carrying his little brother on the back, walks on a rugged path in heavy snow in the remote Daliang Mountains, to help his family move to grandpa's new dwelling. With the help of government's poverty relief policy, Jijue Jizhu's family and his grandpa are relocated to more liveable villages. Jijue Jizhu's family has got a government subsidy to build a new house in the New Dabu Village, where Jijue Jizhu could start his new semester. Since the new house is not done yet, the family decided to first move to the new dwelling of Jijue Jizhu's grandpa in the New Shaku Village, which is close to the New Dabu Village. Jijue Jizhu's family is expected to move into their new house by the end of 2018. (Xinhua/Tian Jianchuan)


Soldiers take part in a training in Beiji Village of the border county Mohe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 5, 2018. Soldiers stuck to their post at the border in spite of the severe cold in Mohe where the temperature had dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


Sparks pour down as performers spray burning iron chips to shower sparks-like fireworks in Luanping County, north China's Hebei Province, March 1, 2018.(Xinhua/Wang Liqun)


Kang Ying (in white shirt) cries as hugging her mother Liu Dengying after their reunion in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 3, 2018. A toddler who disappeared from her parent's fruit stall in southwest China's Chengdu 24 years ago was reunited with her family, after a tireless search by her father. Wang Mingqing, 50, and his wife Liu Dengying have been ceaselessly searching for their daughter Qifeng since she disappeared one afternoon in 1994. Qifeng now bears the name of Kang Ying and lives in the northeastern province of Jilin with her husband, son and daughter. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)


Aerial photo taken on April 25, 2018 shows Zou Daying together with employees drying chillies in her factory in Shangfu Town of Fengxin County, east China's Jiangxi Province. In 2013, 60-year-old Zou started up her business to produce condiments including chilli sauce following her retirement from a community. Over one million bottles of condiments were sold in 2017. Zou employed impoverished villagers in priority in her company and also set up a chilli growing cooperative to help them get ride of poverty. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)


Combo photo shows an aerial view of the reconstructed Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 5, 2018 (upper) and the quake-stricken Yingxiu Town on May 14, 2008. A decade ago, a devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province, severely ruining many counties such as Wenchuan and Beichuan. After ten years of reconstruction and development, those quake-stricken areas have now taken on a new look.(Xinhua/Liu Kun and Chen Kai)


Photo taken on May 17, 2018 shows plants growing at the bottom of a giant karst sinkhole, also known as tiankeng, in Luoquanyan Village of Xuan'en County, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Song Wen)


Photo taken on March 19, 2018 shows 90-year-old Pian Huanying at home in Nuanquan Village of Qinxian County, north China's Shanxi Province. In the autumn of 1942, Pian was abducted and abused by Japanese invaders at the age of 14. She was rescued by her relatives about 20 days later. After that, she was captured for three times. Some 400,000 women across Asia were forced to become sex slaves for the Japanese army during WWII. Nearly half of them were Chinese, according to the Research Center for Comfort Women. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)


Photo taken on Jan. 16, 2018 shows a male giant panda named Hua Bao at the Dujiangyan base of the China conservation and research center for the giant pandas, in Dujiangyan city of southwest China's Sichuan province. A pair of giant pandas left the center for Finland on Jan. 17, 2018 and will live in Ahtari zoo for 15 years. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)


Two cloned macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are fed at the non-human-primate research facility under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)


A member of a deicing team works at Guanyintang Tunnel in Sanmenxia City, central China's Henan Province, Jan. 25, 2018. The team's work is removing ice hanging on the wall of the tunnel to ensure railway transportation safety in winter. (Xinhua/Li An)


A herdsman rides a horse on the snow-covered grassland in Xilinhot city, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)


Flower petals are cut by da Vinci Xi Surgical System during a demonstration at the Medical Equipment & Health Care Products area of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)


In this photo taken with a long-time exposure, China sends two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Nov. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)


A J-10B fighter jet performs an aerobatics display during the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 6, 2018. A J-10B thrust-vectoring demonstrator made its debut at the Airshow China. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)


A Siberian tiger stands in the snow at the China Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center in Hailin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 22, 2018.(Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)


Aerial photo taken on Dec. 31, 2018 shows ruddy shelducks on the frozen Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Wu Gang)


Yang Shengqiang feeds salt water to a goat at Sanhuixi Village of Tongren City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 17, 2018. Yang lost his left arm due to an accident at the age of 10. He began to make use of the natural pasture to breed goats in 2008, and after ten years of hard work, Yang's goat farm saw booming development. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)


Aerial photo taken on Nov. 17, 2018 shows the snow scenery of the Mount Huashan scenic area in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Mount Huashan is one of China's five most famous scenic mountains and is known for its steep and perilous peaks. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)


Zhu Wentao demonstrates a steel scrap he lathed that is fine enough to be ignited in his studio in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 29, 2018. As a senior technician of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Qiqihar Co. Ltd., Zhu has received prizes multiple times for his excellent occupational performance. Being the master of tools, he is able to lathe steel scraps as fine as less than one-seventh the diameter of ordinary human hair. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)


Aerial photo shows the view of a snow-covered park in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Dec. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)


Sun Jinluan (L) lifts the red veil for her husband Chen Jianglin at the ceremony to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary at Xixiaowang Township of Wudi County, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Chen Ziqing)


Yao Ming (top), president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), accepts bouquets presented by young pioneers during a grand gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Visitors pose for photos at a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2018. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Panorama photo taken on June 2, 2018 shows the night view of Wusi Square in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was held from June 9 to 10 in Qingdao. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Aerial photo taken on June 21, 2018 shows morning view of the Lujiazui area in Pudong of Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Ren Long)


Workers patrol the manufacturing site of prefabricated building parts for the Yinchuan-Xi'an high-speed railway in northwest China, July 7, 2018. The 618-kilometer railway is scheduled to start operation by the end of 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)


People watch a man walking on a webbing during a slacklining competition in the Shenxianju scenic spot in Xianju County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Cheng)


Farmers work at a rice field in Ping'an Township of Shulan City, northeast China's Jilin Province, Sept. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


Aerial photo taken on July 11, 2018 shows the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)


A foreigner performs Ansai waist drum dance with local dancers at Nangou Village in Ansai District, Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Oct. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)


Rescuers salvage the wreck of a bus that plunged into the Yangtze River at Wanzhou, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Nov. 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)


Researchers check the surface of a four-meter-aperture optical mirror developed by Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 21, 2018. China has developed a high accuracy four-meter-aperture optical mirror, an important tool for deep space and astronomical observation. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


China's Hongying (Red Eagle) Aerobatic Team perform at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 6, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Pan)


Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2018 shows mature wheat in a field of an agricultural park in Kazak Autonomous County of Mori, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)


Staff members clean up offices ravaged by Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Kowloon of south China's Hong Kong, Sept. 17, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)


Aerial photo taken on Oct. 4, 2018 shows a herd of milu deer on a wetland at the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/He Jinghua)


Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2018 shows skyscrapers at dawn in Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Huang Hailong wipes tears when departing with his wife and younger son in Shishi City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Feb. 2, 2018. Huang Hailong, a migrant worker from Suining City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, has worked at a clothing factory in Shishi for ten years. Although living with his wife and younger son Cong Cong, Huang is still missing his parents and elder son who live in mountainous area of Sichuan. This year, in order to save money, Huang decided to return alone to his hometown to spend the Spring Festival with his families in Sichuan. (Xinhua/Song Weiwei)


A citizen looks at the damaged Yun Men Tusi Ti building in quake-hit Hualien, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)


Photo taken on March 30, 2018 shows the Potala Palace after a snowfall in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chogo)


Archaeologists excavate the coffin of the No. 5 tomb of the Marquis of Haihun site in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 25, 2018. A metal seal reading "Liu Chongguo" was unearthed from the No. 5 tomb at the Marquis of Haihun site, China's most complete Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.) cemetery, and the identity of No. 5 tomb owner has been confirmed to be the eldest son of the controversial Chinese emperor Liu He. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)


Liu Yulin (R) and his daughter Liu Hongying take care of the remains of miners at Liaoyuan Miner's Tomb Museum during Japanese occupation in Liaoyuan, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 4, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)


Aerial photo shows Liang Zhefeng (1st L), the owner of a guest house, serves tea for customers in Shangyu District of Shaoxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 21, 2018. The local tourism had benefited from a project Zhejiang Province launched in 2003 to overhaul the living environment of villages. The province has made constant efforts in the past 15 years to improve the rural living environment, creating "tens of thousands of beautiful villages." (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)

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XINHUA PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2018: CHINA NEWS


Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to deputies to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, capital of China, March 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, shakes hands with villagers as he visits Huopu, a new village for relocated residents from poor areas, in Jiefang Township in Zhaojue County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 11, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with villagers in Zhanqi Village of Pidu District in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 12, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)


Xi Jinping takes a public oath of allegiance to the Constitution in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 17, 2018. Xi was elected Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, the national legislature. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, poses for a group photo with officers and soldiers on the missile destroyer Changsha on April 12, 2018. Xi reviewed the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the South China Sea and made a speech after the review. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the Chenglingji Hydrological Station, a major flood monitoring spot of the Yangtze River, for the ecological environment protection and economic development along China's longest river, in Yueyang City of central China's Hunan Province, April 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)


Chinese President Xi Jinping awards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the first-ever Friendship Medal of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)


Chinese President Xi Jinping (C), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the farms and land reclamation administrative bureau of Jiansanjiang, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)


Chinese President Xi Jinping enters the venue of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Nov. 17, 2018. Xi delivered a keynote speech titled Jointly Charting a Course Toward a Brighter Future at the summit. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)


Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 1, 2018. President Xi attended a working dinner with President Trump in Buenos Aires. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)


Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, applauds for the personnel awarded with medals during a grand gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 18, 2018. Xi made an important speech at the gathering. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)


Military personnel start training after Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, issued an order at a mobilization meeting held by the commission on Jan. 3, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


China's research icebreaker Xuelong travels between sheets of floating ice in Antarctica, Jan. 3, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Dianliang)


Combo photo shows hands of women of four generations (R) and the four women at home in Wuying Village, a village of Miao ethnic group under joint administration of Rongshui County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Congjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 13, 2018. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)


Yu Dongqin (R) tries to say thanks to her husband Duan Rongxian at home in Duanwan Village of Xinyang City, central China's Henan Province, April 30, 2018. Duan has taken care of his paralysed wife, who also has difficulty in speaking, for over 40 years. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)


Photo taken on Feb. 1, 2018 shows bullet trains waiting to be maintained in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)


Jijue Jizhu goes downhill with his younger brother on his shoulder, to take the bus heading to his grandpa's new dwelling in Yuexi County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 2, 2018. Jijue Jizhu, 9, carrying his little brother on the back, walks on a rugged path in heavy snow in the remote Daliang Mountains, to help his family move to grandpa's new dwelling. With the help of government's poverty relief policy, Jijue Jizhu's family and his grandpa are relocated to more liveable villages. Jijue Jizhu's family has got a government subsidy to build a new house in the New Dabu Village, where Jijue Jizhu could start his new semester. Since the new house is not done yet, the family decided to first move to the new dwelling of Jijue Jizhu's grandpa in the New Shaku Village, which is close to the New Dabu Village. Jijue Jizhu's family is expected to move into their new house by the end of 2018. (Xinhua/Tian Jianchuan)


Soldiers take part in a training in Beiji Village of the border county Mohe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 5, 2018. Soldiers stuck to their post at the border in spite of the severe cold in Mohe where the temperature had dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. (Xinhua/Li Gang)


Sparks pour down as performers spray burning iron chips to shower sparks-like fireworks in Luanping County, north China's Hebei Province, March 1, 2018.(Xinhua/Wang Liqun)


Kang Ying (in white shirt) cries as hugging her mother Liu Dengying after their reunion in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 3, 2018. A toddler who disappeared from her parent's fruit stall in southwest China's Chengdu 24 years ago was reunited with her family, after a tireless search by her father. Wang Mingqing, 50, and his wife Liu Dengying have been ceaselessly searching for their daughter Qifeng since she disappeared one afternoon in 1994. Qifeng now bears the name of Kang Ying and lives in the northeastern province of Jilin with her husband, son and daughter. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)


Aerial photo taken on April 25, 2018 shows Zou Daying together with employees drying chillies in her factory in Shangfu Town of Fengxin County, east China's Jiangxi Province. In 2013, 60-year-old Zou started up her business to produce condiments including chilli sauce following her retirement from a community. Over one million bottles of condiments were sold in 2017. Zou employed impoverished villagers in priority in her company and also set up a chilli growing cooperative to help them get ride of poverty. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)


Combo photo shows an aerial view of the reconstructed Yingxiu Town of Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 5, 2018 (upper) and the quake-stricken Yingxiu Town on May 14, 2008. A decade ago, a devastating 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked southwest China's Sichuan Province, severely ruining many counties such as Wenchuan and Beichuan. After ten years of reconstruction and development, those quake-stricken areas have now taken on a new look.(Xinhua/Liu Kun and Chen Kai)


Photo taken on May 17, 2018 shows plants growing at the bottom of a giant karst sinkhole, also known as tiankeng, in Luoquanyan Village of Xuan'en County, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Song Wen)


Photo taken on March 19, 2018 shows 90-year-old Pian Huanying at home in Nuanquan Village of Qinxian County, north China's Shanxi Province. In the autumn of 1942, Pian was abducted and abused by Japanese invaders at the age of 14. She was rescued by her relatives about 20 days later. After that, she was captured for three times. Some 400,000 women across Asia were forced to become sex slaves for the Japanese army during WWII. Nearly half of them were Chinese, according to the Research Center for Comfort Women. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)


Photo taken on Jan. 16, 2018 shows a male giant panda named Hua Bao at the Dujiangyan base of the China conservation and research center for the giant pandas, in Dujiangyan city of southwest China's Sichuan province. A pair of giant pandas left the center for Finland on Jan. 17, 2018 and will live in Ahtari zoo for 15 years. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)


Two cloned macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are fed at the non-human-primate research facility under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)


A member of a deicing team works at Guanyintang Tunnel in Sanmenxia City, central China's Henan Province, Jan. 25, 2018. The team's work is removing ice hanging on the wall of the tunnel to ensure railway transportation safety in winter. (Xinhua/Li An)


A herdsman rides a horse on the snow-covered grassland in Xilinhot city, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)


Flower petals are cut by da Vinci Xi Surgical System during a demonstration at the Medical Equipment & Health Care Products area of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)


In this photo taken with a long-time exposure, China sends two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Nov. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)


A J-10B fighter jet performs an aerobatics display during the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 6, 2018. A J-10B thrust-vectoring demonstrator made its debut at the Airshow China. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)


A Siberian tiger stands in the snow at the China Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center in Hailin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 22, 2018.(Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)


Aerial photo taken on Dec. 31, 2018 shows ruddy shelducks on the frozen Qinghai Lake in northwest China's Qinghai Province. (Xinhua/Wu Gang)


Yang Shengqiang feeds salt water to a goat at Sanhuixi Village of Tongren City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 17, 2018. Yang lost his left arm due to an accident at the age of 10. He began to make use of the natural pasture to breed goats in 2008, and after ten years of hard work, Yang's goat farm saw booming development. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)


Aerial photo taken on Nov. 17, 2018 shows the snow scenery of the Mount Huashan scenic area in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Mount Huashan is one of China's five most famous scenic mountains and is known for its steep and perilous peaks. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)


Zhu Wentao demonstrates a steel scrap he lathed that is fine enough to be ignited in his studio in Qiqihar, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 29, 2018. As a senior technician of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) Qiqihar Co. Ltd., Zhu has received prizes multiple times for his excellent occupational performance. Being the master of tools, he is able to lathe steel scraps as fine as less than one-seventh the diameter of ordinary human hair. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)


Aerial photo shows the view of a snow-covered park in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Dec. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)


Sun Jinluan (L) lifts the red veil for her husband Chen Jianglin at the ceremony to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary at Xixiaowang Township of Wudi County, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 19, 2018. (Xinhua/Chen Ziqing)


Yao Ming (top), president of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), accepts bouquets presented by young pioneers during a grand gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Visitors pose for photos at a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2018. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Panorama photo taken on June 2, 2018 shows the night view of Wusi Square in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit was held from June 9 to 10 in Qingdao. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Aerial photo taken on June 21, 2018 shows morning view of the Lujiazui area in Pudong of Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Ren Long)


Workers patrol the manufacturing site of prefabricated building parts for the Yinchuan-Xi'an high-speed railway in northwest China, July 7, 2018. The 618-kilometer railway is scheduled to start operation by the end of 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)


People watch a man walking on a webbing during a slacklining competition in the Shenxianju scenic spot in Xianju County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 25, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Cheng)


Farmers work at a rice field in Ping'an Township of Shulan City, northeast China's Jilin Province, Sept. 18, 2018. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


Aerial photo taken on July 11, 2018 shows the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. (Xinhua/Liang Xu)


A foreigner performs Ansai waist drum dance with local dancers at Nangou Village in Ansai District, Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Oct. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)


Rescuers salvage the wreck of a bus that plunged into the Yangtze River at Wanzhou, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Nov. 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)


Researchers check the surface of a four-meter-aperture optical mirror developed by Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics, and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 21, 2018. China has developed a high accuracy four-meter-aperture optical mirror, an important tool for deep space and astronomical observation. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


China's Hongying (Red Eagle) Aerobatic Team perform at the 12th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, on Nov. 6, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Pan)


Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2018 shows mature wheat in a field of an agricultural park in Kazak Autonomous County of Mori, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)


Staff members clean up offices ravaged by Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Kowloon of south China's Hong Kong, Sept. 17, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)


Aerial photo taken on Oct. 4, 2018 shows a herd of milu deer on a wetland at the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve in Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/He Jinghua)


Photo taken on Nov. 2, 2018 shows skyscrapers at dawn in Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)


Huang Hailong wipes tears when departing with his wife and younger son in Shishi City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Feb. 2, 2018. Huang Hailong, a migrant worker from Suining City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, has worked at a clothing factory in Shishi for ten years. Although living with his wife and younger son Cong Cong, Huang is still missing his parents and elder son who live in mountainous area of Sichuan. This year, in order to save money, Huang decided to return alone to his hometown to spend the Spring Festival with his families in Sichuan. (Xinhua/Song Weiwei)


A citizen looks at the damaged Yun Men Tusi Ti building in quake-hit Hualien, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)


Photo taken on March 30, 2018 shows the Potala Palace after a snowfall in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chogo)


Archaeologists excavate the coffin of the No. 5 tomb of the Marquis of Haihun site in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 25, 2018. A metal seal reading "Liu Chongguo" was unearthed from the No. 5 tomb at the Marquis of Haihun site, China's most complete Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.) cemetery, and the identity of No. 5 tomb owner has been confirmed to be the eldest son of the controversial Chinese emperor Liu He. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)


Liu Yulin (R) and his daughter Liu Hongying take care of the remains of miners at Liaoyuan Miner's Tomb Museum during Japanese occupation in Liaoyuan, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 4, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhang Nan)


Aerial photo shows Liang Zhefeng (1st L), the owner of a guest house, serves tea for customers in Shangyu District of Shaoxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 21, 2018. The local tourism had benefited from a project Zhejiang Province launched in 2003 to overhaul the living environment of villages. The province has made constant efforts in the past 15 years to improve the rural living environment, creating "tens of thousands of beautiful villages." (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)

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