BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
A drone photo shows officers and soldiers spelling out Chinese characters "secure country, sweet home" on aircraft carrier Shandong's flight deck in Hong Kong waters, south China, July 3, 2025. A fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy led by the aircraft carrier Shandong arrived in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Thursday morning, kicking off a five-day visit. The aircraft carrier and the Yan'an missile destroyer were anchored near the west end of the Victoria Harbor, while the Zhanjiang missile destroyer and the Yuncheng missile frigate docked at the PLA Hong Kong Garrison's naval base in Stonecutters Island. This is the Shandong's first visit to Hong Kong. From Friday to Sunday, the Shandong, the Zhanjiang and the Yuncheng will host open tours, lectures, drill demonstrations and other exchange activities. (Photo by Pu Haiyang/Xinhua)A local gives a thumb-up to rescuers as they leave after the mission was accomplished, in Rongjiang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 3, 2025. The flood control and rescue teams from various places that had rushed to Rongjiang County began to leave in an orderly manner on Thursday. Local residents spontaneously took to the streets to bid farewell to the rescue teams and express their gratitude. Rongjiang County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, widely known as the birthplace of the Village Super League, or Cun Chao, is beginning post-disaster recovery after being hit by two severe floods in less than a week. As floodwaters receded, (Photo by Yang Wukui/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows the Heishan Gorge Yellow River grand bridge in Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The two sides of the Heishan Gorge Yellow River grand bridge were joined together on Thursday, laying a solid foundation for the bridge's completion within this year. The 1,539-meter-long grand bridge, with a span of 240 meters, is a major project of the highway linking Zhongwei of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Mengjiawan of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)An aerial drone photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a container yard of an automated container terminal of Qinzhou Port in Qinzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Cargo volume on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor surged 76.9 percent year on year to 746,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the first six months of this year, according to the China Railway Nanning Group. The corridor now operates 14 fixed train routes connecting Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi and Zhanjiang Port in neighboring Guangdong Province to major inland hubs including Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang, Lanzhou, Huaihua and Xi'an. Goods transported through the trade corridor via intermodal rail-sea service now cover 1,236 categories, 79 more than a year earlier, spanning electronics, vehicles and auto parts, machinery, household appliances, and food. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)A Russian tourist interacts with a humanoid robot at a market in Dongji (meaning "eastmost of China") Square in Fuyuan City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, July 2, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)This photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a view of the LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort in Shanghai, east China. Located in Shanghai's Jinshan District, the 318,000-square-meter LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort will officially open on July 5. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)People unload medical supplies from a truck at the Tirunesh-Beijing Hospital, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2025. The 25th batch of the Chinese medical team in Ethiopia has donated much-needed medical supplies to the Tirunesh-Beijing Hospital, also known as the Ethio-China Friendship Hospital, located on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde)A man cools off at a fountain on Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy, July 2, 2025. This week, Italy once again finds itself at the epicenter of a growing climate emergency sweeping across Europe. A persistent and deadly heatwave has gripped much of the country, prompting red alerts in major cities. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua)Firefighters battle the flames that keep burning forests and farmland near Ierapetra on the island of Crete, Greece, on July 3, 2025. Two major wildfires, one on the island of Crete and another near the port town of Rafina east of Athens, have forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 residents and tourists, Greek authorities said on Thursday. (Photo by Stefanos Repanis/Xinhua)Family members and relatives of passengers aboard a capsized ship wait for updates at Ketapang Port in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia, July 3, 2025. Six people were confirmed dead, 24 remain missing and 35 others have survived after a passenger ship sank in Indonesia's Bali Strait on Wednesday night, according to Gusti Ayu Ketut Wijayanti, spokesperson for the Search and Rescue Office in Bali. (Photo by Sahlan Kurniawan/Xinhua)Flowers and tributes to Diogo Jota are left outside Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, Britain, July 3, 2025. Liverpool's Portuguese international forward Diogo Jota and his brother Andre died in the early hours of Thursday morning in a car accident in north-east Spain, according to Spanish authorities. (Xinhua)■
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