Xinhua photos of the day

The moon is pictured with the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, July 23, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. (Xinhua/Li Ming)

Children display a paper-cutting work at Yinchuan West Road Community of Shinan District, Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, July 22, 2024. During the summer vacation, the community organized activities of learning intangible cultural heritage to enrich children’s holiday experience. (Photo by Wang Haibin/Xinhua)

This panoramic photo shows people visiting the 8th China-South Asia Expo in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 23, 2024. The 8th China-South Asia Expo opened on Tuesday in Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, attracting over 2,000 exhibitors.
Nearly half of the exhibitors are companies from South and Southeast Asia. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

This photo taken on July 23, 2024 shows a sunset view of the Opera House and the Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Liang Yu/Xinhua)

A child pats a dog in Tianmen Village, Shuicheng District of Liupanshui, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, July 16, 2024. In the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain and by the Beipanjiang River, quaint stilted buildings scatter among the green mountains and waters, forming a pastoral picture, in Tianman Village.
Tianmen Village is located in the northeast of Huajia Miao Buyi and Yi Township of Liupanshui City, which is a traditional Buyi ethnic village, divided into 6 hamlets with a population of more than 1,000.
Surrounded by mountains on three sides and a river on the other, the remote village was once isolated. To get out of the village, people had to climb hundreds of stone stairs over the steep mountain and pass through cliffs in the canyon.
Tianmen Village has a history of more than 600 years, and still retains 178 buildings made of wood shingles. The original landscape of the village and traditional folk activities have become a major feature for the village, which are also the focus of cultural protection and tourism promotion. (Xinhua/Tao Liang)

A China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft is pictured at a flight test base in Pucheng County of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, July 17, 2024. China’s AG600 large amphibious aircraft has entered the phase of certification flight tests, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) announced on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Airworthiness Certification Center of the Aviation Administration of China issued the Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) to the first model of the AG600 large amphibious aircraft family, said the AVIC, China’s leading aircraft manufacturer. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 23, 2024 shows a view of the North Curl Curl Rockpool in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Liang Yu/Xinhua)

Tourists visit the trial preview of an exhibition at the Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, July 22, 2024. An exhibition named “Craftsmanship and Ingenuity – Showcase of Preservation and Restoration Achievements of Newly Excavated Cultural Relics from the Sangxingdui Site” opened here on Tuesday.
More than 50 pieces of newly restored bronze ware, golden ware, jadeware, ivory and other artifacts are displayed at the exhibition, which will last until the end of 2024.
Discovered in the late 1920s in the city of Guanghan, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Sanxingdui Ruins have been dubbed as one of the world’s greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.
The provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute said on Tuesday that, since 2022, over 400 sites have been identified, including high-level building foundations, ash pits, ash ditches, and stone artifacts production and processing sites at Sanxingdui. More than 4,000 artifacts, including pottery, jadeware and stoneware, have been unearthed. (Xinhua/Tang Wenhao)