Xinhua Photo Daily | May 15, 2021

Source: Xinhua| 2021-05-15 17:15:56|Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, convenes a symposium on advancing the high-quality follow-up development of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, in Nanyang, central China's Henan Province, May 14, 2021. (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, convenes a symposium on advancing the high-quality follow-up development of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, in Nanyang, central China's Henan Province, May 14, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)

Technical personnel celebrate after China's Tianwen-1 probe successfully landed on Mars at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2021. The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has touched down on the red planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed on Saturday morning. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

A medical worker collects a swab sample of a student for nucleic acid testing of possible COVID-19 infection at No. 1 Middle School of Lu'an City, east China's Anhui Province, May 14, 2021. Lu'an City is conducting nucleic acid tests for all residents in major urban districts of the city. (Photo by Chen Li/Xinhua)

Rescue team members participate in an earthquake drill in Yucheng District, Ya'an City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2021. An earthquake drill jointly organized by the anti-quake and relief headquarters office under the State Council, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the Sichuan provincial government was held here on Friday. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

Zhang Xiaojuan (L) and Wu Zhaoxia, both technicians with the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, restore a piece of mural in their studio in Datong, north China's Shanxi Province, on May 9, 2021.

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001, the Yungang Grottoes is a 1,500-year-old Buddhist site that contains more than 51,000 statues of the Buddha, with the largest measuring 17 meters high and the smallest two centimeters.

The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, for its part, boasts a relics protection and restoration team mainly composed of professionals in their 20s and 30s, who are trying their very best to keep these statues in their prime condition as long as possible.

Armed with modern technologies, these young people have gone beyond fundamental protection and restoration, and walked the extra mile to present these statues in a much more vivid way before tourists and learners from all over the world. (Xinhua/Zhan Yan)

Students board a boat under the guidance of Zhao Shibin (2nd R) in Huangdong Yao Township of Hezhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 13, 2021.

Zhao, 61, is a ferryman from Huangdong Yao Township in Hezhou. Waiting by the river has been the daily routine of Zhao for the past 19 years.

Separated by the Huangdong River, locals who live in the east bank can only be ferried to reach the west bank, where village markets and medical institutions are located.

Knowing that the biggest obstacle to people's life was nature itself, Zhao started to ferry residents in 2002 by pulling the iron-clad boat with a rope through the 105-meter waterway. He has therefore gained the nickname "a human bridge across the river."

Since 2016, local authorities have been committed to improving transport infrastructure. Access to paved roads has been realized in the east bank, with a total length of more than 10 kilometers. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

Yu Deyang of Sichuan competes during the men's pole vault final at 2021 National Athletics Invitational Tournament, in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 14, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Lili)

People transfer an injured kid after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2021. Thursday was another day of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas, as more than 1,700 missiles have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the last three days while the Israeli military has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

Photo taken on May 13, 2021 shows explosions following Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Thursday was another day of intense fighting between Israel and Hamas, as more than 1,700 missiles have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the last three days while the Israeli military has conducted hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

An Afghan man cleans up the scene inside a mosque in Qala-e-Murad Baig area of Shakar Dara district of Kabul province, Afghanistan, May 14, 2021. Twelve people were killed and 15 others wounded as an improvised explosive device was detonated at the mosque on Friday, the capital police said. (Photo by Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua)

People visit the National Gallery in Athens, Greece, on May 14, 2021. All the museums in Greece reopened for the public on Friday as the strict measures against COVID-19 are lifted. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

A policeman stops vehicles for checking in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 14, 2021. Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday declared that strict islandwide travel restrictions will be imposed in efforts to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading further in the Asian country. The countrywide travel restrictions came into effect from May 13 to 31. (Xinhua/Ajith Perera)

Volcanic materials spew from Mount Sinabung as seen in Karo district, North Sumatra, Indonesia, May 13, 2021. (Photo by Alberth Damanik/Xinhua)


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