The first rays of sunlight in the morning shine on a resting flock of black-necked cranes overwintering in Lhunzhub County of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Jigme Dorje)
A woman takes photos amid snow in Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Tofik Babayev/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Feb. 18, 2025 shows a dusk view of Lake Victoria as seen from Kisumu, Kenya. Kisumu, nestled on the picturesque shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya near the equator, stands as the nation's third-largest city and the busiest port on the lake. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)
Farmers pick tea leaves at an organic tea plantation in Baisha Li Autonomous County of south China's Hainan Province, Feb. 21, 2025. As one of the main tea-producing areas in Hainan, Baisha County boasts a combined tea-planting area of more than 12,000 mu (about 800 hectares), or one third of the province's total, along with an annual output of tea products worth 130 million yuan (about 17.9 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
Chinese employees return to their accommodation area after work at the site of the Tuz Lake underground natural gas storage expansion project in Aksaray Province, Türkiye, Feb. 11, 2025. The Tuz Lake underground natural gas storage expansion project is located on the Anatolian Plateau in Aksaray Province, a central province in Türkiye, with cold and snowy winters and hot and dry summers. Chinese constructors have been working here for many years, building the natural gas storage expansion project in an effort to boost Türkiye's green and low-carbon transformation.
The core part of the expansion project, which includes design, procurement and construction of ground station facilities, is undertaken by China CAMC Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Machinery Industry Corporation.
The core part of the expansion project has achieved mechanical completion recently and is preparing for trial operation. After the project is completed, it will greatly improve Türkiye's natural gas transportation and storage capacity, ease local energy shortages, and provide a guarantee for Turkish clean energy supply.
As a supporter of the BRI, Türkiye signed a memorandum of understanding with China in 2015 to align with its Middle Corridor plan, connecting Türkiye and Europe to China via a Trans-Caspian transport route.
Over the years, cooperation between China and Türkiye in hydropower, photovoltaics, wind power and other fields has been continuously strengthened. The Tuz Lake underground natural gas storage expansion project jointly built by China and Türkiye is expected to achieve a win-win outcome for local economic development and environmental protection. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)
People select livestock at a livestock market in Xiaohai Town of the Yi-Hui-Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 21, 2025. It has come to the peak trading period of local livestock market, where farmers are busy selecting cattle and other livestock for the spring farming season. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
Sun Yingsha of China serves during the women's singles Group 1 match against Mohamed Aia of Qatar at the 34th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup table tennis tournament in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 21, 2025. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
Growers carry out greenhouse enclosing operations at a rice seedlings raising base of agriculture company Beidahuang in Shuangyashan City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 20, 2025. An increasing number of reclamation areas in Heilongjiang Province have entered their spring farming season. Staff members are busy removing residual snow and enclosing greenhouses designated to rice seedling raising.
The maintenance and overhaul of smart agricultural equipment and agricultural machinery, and the distribution of seeds and fertilizers are also being carried out in an orderly manner.
All these efforts are meant to ensure smooth spring ploughing across some 1.9 million mu (12,667 hectares) of cultivated land in the region.
In 2024, the grain production of Heilongjiang Province achieved its 21st consecutive bountiful harvest, and its total grain output exceeded 800 million tonnes for the first time, ranking the first in the country for 15 years in a row. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
An aerial drone photo shows passenger cars to be exported at a port in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 21, 2025. China's passenger car industry maintained steady growth in both output and sales in January, industry data showed on Wednesday. Exports of passenger cars soared by 7 percent year on year to reach 395,000 units during the same period. (Photo by Wang Chun/Xinhua)
A panoramic drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural sinkhole cluster in Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou's karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
A visitor views exhibits during a Dunhuang Art Exhibition in Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 20, 2025. The Dunhuang Art Exhibition was held here on Thursday. (Photo by Wu Jiaxiang/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a view of the Nankan grottoes scenic spot in Bazhou District of Bazhong City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Nankan grottoes, known for its 179 carved grottoes which house over 2,700 painted Buddhist statues, is a tourist attraction in Bazhong City.
The carving of the grottoes began in the Sui Dynasty (581-618). The statues here are rich in content, exquisite in shape, bright in color and well preserved. (Xinhua/Zhang Yawen)
