Xinhua photos of the day

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 6, 2024 shows the autumn scenery in Zhuozi County of Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)

Tourists visit the Temple of Heaven, a heritage along the Beijing Central Axis, during the National Day holiday in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 5, 2024.
Beijing Central Axis, a newly recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site extending 7.8 kilometers through its heart, offers visitors a new perspective from which to explore the city on foot. Tourist interest in visiting locations along the axis has grown significantly during this year’s National Day holiday, with bookings increasing by 69 percent compared to last year. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

Passengers are pictured at the Tianjin West Railway Station in north China’s Tianjin, Oct. 7, 2024.
China’s railway sector experienced a surge in passenger traffic on Monday as travelers returned from the week-long National Day holiday. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

Tbourida, a Moroccan equestrian performance, is staged at the 15th Horse Show of El Jadida, in El Jadida, Morocco, Oct. 5, 2024. (Xinhua/Huo Jing)

A man stands on the rubble of a destroyed building in the northern Gaza Strip city of Jabalia, Oct. 6, 2024.
Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against an attack by the former on the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.
Gaza-based health authorities reported on Monday that the death toll among Palestinians from ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 41,909. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)

Portraits of the 2024 Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, are seen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 7, 2024.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded Monday to two American scientists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. (Xinhua/Peng Ziyang)

An Israeli reserve soldier is silhouetted against sunshine at a tank staging area near northern Israeli border with Lebanon, Oct. 7, 2024.
Israel’s military has declared four additional towns near the Lebanon border as a “closed military zone,” signaling a potential escalation in its ground operations. (Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)

A woman walks past film posters at a cinema in Tancheng County, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 7, 2024.
The box office takings for the 2024 National Day holiday have exceeded 2 billion yuan (about 285 million U.S. dollars), according to the movie data platform Maoyan. (Photo by Zhang Chunlei/Xinhua)

The sun rises and shines on the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

A worker is pictured at the production line of a textile company in Jimo District of Qingdao City, east China’s Shandong Province, Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua)

Yuan Yue of China hits a return during the women’s singles round of 64 match against Clara Burel of France at the 2024 Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Oct. 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)