Chinese Daily Photos 2024

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During the Chinese New Year celebrations, train maintenance personnel, also known as "train doctors", have worked tirelessly to keep trains safe and running smoothly. On Feb 14, the fifth day of the holiday, mechanics at the Beijing Chaoyang Railway Station depot meticulously checked trains for the travel rush.

Opening ceremony of the dragon dance parade in Huizhou, Guangdong. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]



Dragons of various styles danced to the rhythmic resonance of drums and gongs as they paraded through major venues in Huizhou city, South China's Guangdong province on Lantern Festival.



Eighteen of them belong to the country's national intangible cultural heritage and two are from Hong Kong and Macao, complemented by 31 provincial intangible cultural performances from Guangdong.



More than 1,200 performers joined the parade through a route spanning 3.6 kilometers, attracting more than 150,000 onlookers. More than 18 million people watched the parade online.

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Rescuers work at the site where a containership collided with a bridge in Nansha district, Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 22, 2024. (Photos by: China News Service/Yang Junhua)

Five people were killed in the accident and the bridge on Thursday morning in Guangzhou.

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Women and girls are seen wearing a flowery headwear in Xunpu Village of Quanzhou, east China's Fujian Province, Feb. 21, 2024. (Photos: China News Service/Zhang Bin)

The floral headdress,a traditional symbol of Xunpu women, is called Zanhuawei in Quanzhou, a port city known as one of the starting points of the ancient maritime silk road. The flowery headwear is made of fresh flowers and hairpins and was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

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A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the mother at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 10, 2024. According to the Chinese zodiac and tradition, the Year of Dragon symbolizes courage, auspiciousness and good luck. (Photo by Chen Qibao/Xinhua)



A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with the mother and sister at a hospital in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 10, 2024. (Photo by Zhu Jipeng/Xinhua)



A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen with family members at a hospital in Heshan, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 10, 2024. (Photo by Huang Jiming/Xinhua)



A newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, is seen at a hospital in Gejiu, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 10, 2024.(Photo by Xue Yingying/Xinhua)



A nurse takes care of a newborn baby, whose Chinese zodiac sign is dragon, at a hospital in Ulanqab, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2024. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

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Dancers perform the Chaoshan Yingge dance, or "dance to the hero's song", during a Chinese New Year celebration event in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 8, 2024. (Photos: China News Service/Chen Jimin)





The Yingge Dance merging opera, dance and martial arts dates back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chaoshan is a region in south China's Guangdong Province, containing the three cities of Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang with a distinct language and culture.

Researchers adjust a humanoid robot at an AI laboratory on Jan 31, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]





"Q Family" humanoid robots developed by the research team of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently made their public debut in Beijing.

Led by Qiao Hong, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the state key laboratory of multimodal artificial intelligence systems, the research team built a "big factory" for the design and assembly of the humanoid robots.



Several prototypes of "Q Family" humanoid robots have obtained preliminary technical verification.



Qiao Hong, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, poses with a humanoid robot on Jan 31, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

People have family reunion dinners at a restaurant in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 9, 2024. People across the country enjoy the festive atmosphere with family reunion dinners on the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year on Friday. [Photo provided by Hang Xingwei/Xinhua]



People have a family reunion dinner in Huangtian Village of Yongchun County, Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Feb. 9, 2024. People across the country enjoy the festive atmosphere with family reunion dinners on the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year on Friday. [Photo provided by Zeng Demeng/Xinhua]



People have a family reunion dinner in Hanjiang District of Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 9, 2024. People across the country enjoy the festive atmosphere with family reunion dinners on the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year on Friday. [Photo provided by Qi Liguang/Xinhua]



People have a family reunion dinner in Zheng'an County of Zunyi, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 9, 2024. People across the country enjoy the festive atmosphere with family reunion dinners on the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year on Friday. [Photo provided by Zhao Yongzhang/Xinhua]