Aerial photo taken on May 11, 2019 shows the performance during the 1000-day countdown celebrations of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games held in Chongli of Zhangjiakou City, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
An collection of images offering an overview of Chinese people's daily lives.
BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- From above, the world reveals itself in an unfamiliar but impressive way, adding a dimension to our understanding of life.
Drones, the wings of the eyes and eyes of the explorers, take us to recap the year of 2019, with the most notable aerial shots from Xinhua photographers.
Aerial Photo taken on Sept. 2, 2019 shows the opening ceremony of a school in Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province where a catastrophic flash flood and debris flow disaster occured on Aug. 20, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu kun)
Aerial photo taken on Oct. 10, 2019 shows Wang Taifan playing a trumpet at Chongqing Special Education Center in Nan'an District, southwest China's Chongqing. At the age of 12, Wang Taifan, a blind boy, first heard a symphony on the campus of Nan'an District in Chongqing. Then he acquired a trumpet, which granted him a dream for the first time. Since 2014, the trumpet accompanied Wang from the school's small rehearsal hall all the way to bigger stages in Beijing and Shanghai. The orchestra that Wang Taifan studies at is renowned in China now. The significance of the orchestra to students is far more than simply mastering the use of musical instruments. More importantly, the performing of music enables visually impaired students to have a sense of teamwork and the pursuit of dream. Nowadays, the Chongqing Special Education Center offers daily courses on wind instruments, so that every child can have access to music. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 3, 2019 shows fishing boats sailing to the sea in Shapu Town, Fuqing City of southeast China's Fujian Province. The first Fuqing Fishing Festival opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 10, 2019 shows students practicing during a training session at Taipingzhuang Central Primary School, in Yanqing District of Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Aerial photo taken on Oct. 26, 2019 shows tourists riding camels to enjoy the desert scenery at Lop Nur People Village in Yuli County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the first three quarters of this year, Xinjiang received over 183.85 million tourists from home and abroad with a year-on-year increase of 40.9 percent, and saw a total tourism revenue of more than 304.6 billion yuan (about 43.1 billion U.S. dollars) with a year-on-year growth of 40.78 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
Aerial photo taken on Sept. 20, 2019 shows harvesters cropping alfalfa in Ar Horqin Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Local authorities brought in investment to develop the alfalfa planting industry in 2011, which helped to prevent the land from changing into desert. So far, the planting area of alfalfa has reached over 46,666 hectares in this banner. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 17, 2019 shows tourists playing at a water park in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 9, 2019, shows a tug of war held in Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Dressed in traditional costume, herdswomen from villages of Damxung County, about 4300 meters above sea level, took part in the traditional game. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
Aerial photo taken on Nov. 17, 2019 shows kayaks at beach in Xinbu Island of Haikou City, south China's Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
Aerial photo taken on Nov. 22, 2019 shows boats passing by an island in the West Lake scenic area in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)
In this aerial photo taken on Jan. 25, 2019, contestants participate in the 2019 Duolun Nur Cup ice dragon boat match in Duolun County of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The match is a test event for the 14th National Winter Games of China, scheduled for 2020. (Xinhua/Zou Yu)
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 20, 2019 shows winter swimming enthusiasts at the Nanhu Park in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province. The Great Cold (Dahan) solar term on the Chinese lunar calendar falls on Jan. 20 this year. (Xinhua/Xu Congjun)
Aerial photo taken on March 17, 2019 shows visitors enjoying the scenery on a sightseeing vehicle in Yangxi Village in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Aerial photo taken on April 26, 2019 shows students of Shuyang Nanyang School playing cucurbit flute on the playground of the campus in Suqian City, east China's Jiangsu Province. Students in Shuyang Nanyang School are encouraged to participate in a campaign to "bring musical instrument to school" in order to promote traditional Chinese music and to develop the students' art talents. (Xinhua/Li Xiang)
Aerial photo taken on July 13, 2019 shows students of the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School performing in Dengfeng City, central China's Henan Province. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)
Aerial photo taken on June 10, 2019 shows a pattern of sperm whale made of marine garbage during a garbage collecting activity at Yangkou Port in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Xu Congjun)
Aerial photo taken on May 20, 2019 shows the interim camp at the north slope of the Mount Qomolangma. (Xinhua/Wang Qin'ou)
Aerial photo taken on Sept. 4, 2019 shows villagers wait in lines to sell tomatoes to local vegetable processing factories in Sandaoqiao Town of Hetao irrigation area in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Hetao irrigation area has been added to the World Heritage Irrigation Structures list by the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Liu Shiping)
