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A cruise ship is under construction at a shipyard near the Yangtze River estuary, March, 2023. Weighing 135,500 tons and measuring 323.6 meters long and 37.2 meters wide, the gigantic ship produced by the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) marks a new breakthrough for China’s shipbuilding technology (Photo Courtesy of SWS)
Shitong Ding, an ancient bronze tripod with inscriptions, is displayed at Zhengzhou Museum, Henan Province, March 3, 2023. Excavated in Shaanxi Province in 1981, the tripod, made about 3,000 years ago, is a featured piece in the museum’s ongoing exhibition – “Civilization of Great Rivers” (Photo by VCG)
China completes its first in-orbit ignition test on the Mengtian space lab module of the Chinese Space Station, February 16, 2023. Fueled by methane, the ignitions were conducted two times for a total of 30 seconds (Photo by VCG)
Members of Blue Sky Rescue, an emergency search and rescue NGO, are welcomed home at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong Province, February 19, 2023. The team left for Istanbul on February 8 to help with rescue efforts two days after a 7.8-magnitutde earthquake struck Turkey (Photo by VCG)
Villagers perform a straw dragon dance, an intangible cultural heritage, on Dragon Head- Raising Day, the second day of the second lunar month, in She County, Anhui Province, February 21, 2023 (Photo by VCG)
Crowds view the cherry trees in full bloom on the campus of Nanjing Forestry University, Jiangsu Province, March 15, 2023. The campus opened to the public for the first time in three years after pandemic restrictions were lifted (Photo by VCG)
Visitors take in the nightscape along the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, Chongqing, February 15, 2023 (Photo by VCG)
A couple crafts an exquisite scene from wheat husks, Zhuolu County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, February 28, 2023 (Photo by VCG)
