Xinhua photos of the day

Local residents perform Xuan Dance near the ruins of the Guge Kingdom in Zanda County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Sept. 11, 2024. The dance is a Tibetan cultural heritage from the ancient Guge Kingdom that mixes speech, singing and dancing. It was inscribed into the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

People visit the CCPIT (France) Innovation Cooperation Exhibition in Paris, France, Sept. 17, 2024. The three-day event kicked off here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)

Tahi Munroe of Australia competes during the speed race at the 10th World Wingsuit League (WWL) Wingsuit Flying World Championship at the Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, central China’s Hunan Province, on Sept. 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)

Firefighters and railway administration staff members work at a train accident site in Prague, the Czech Republic, Sept. 18, 2024. At least 25 people were injured in a train accident in Prague, rescuers said on Wednesday. (Photo by Dana Kesnerova/Xinhua)

In this drone photo, people dressed in traditional Chinese costumes attend a lantern parade in Hongcun Village of Yixian County, east China’s Anhui Province, Sept. 15, 2024.
(Photo by Shi Yalei/Xinhua)

Tourists ride camels at the Mingshashan and Crescent Lake, an oasis scenic spot in the Gobi Desert, in Dunhuang, northwest China’s Gansu Province, Sept. 15, 2024. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang/Xinhua)

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Sept. 18, 2024. The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed interest rates by 50 basis points amid cooling inflation and a weakening labor market, marking the first rate cut in over four years. (Xinhua/Hu Yousong)

Seiya Matsuno (L), a Japanese scholar, also a distinguished professor at Heilongjiang International University, and Jin Shicheng, a researcher with the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, show a copy of the document about the information of technicians in the Japanese germ-warfare detachments during World War II, at the press center of the Hall in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 17, 2024.
Seiya Matsuno, a Japanese scholar, has disclosed a new document about the information of technicians in the Japanese germ-warfare detachments during World War II in Harbin. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

This photo shows a view of a ceremony to commemorate the September 18 Incident at the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Sept. 18, 2024. The ceremony was held here on Wednesday to mark the 93rd anniversary of the September 18 Incident in 1931, at which Japanese troops began the bloody invasion of China. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 17, 2024 shows the scenery of Ulgai Grassland in Xilingol, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)