An aerial drone photo taken on July 29, 2026 shows a city view of Gqeberha, South Africa. Located in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, Gqeberha is a major port city and automotive manufacturing hub, as well as a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Chen Wei)
Passengers walk past heat warning display in the main train station in Berlin, capital of Germany, July 30, 2026. Germany recorded an estimated 9,800 heat-related deaths as of July 19, surpassing the annual total for every year since 2016, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country's leading public health authority, said Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Haofu)
Tourists watch a folk performance near a lounge bridge in Xuan'en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province, July 29, 2026. A series of night tours have been launched along the waterfront walkways in Xuan'en County to enrich local night tourism scenarios and invigorate the cultural and tourism vitality of the small mountain town. (Photo by Song Wen/Xinhua)
Lin Xiao (R) of China competes with Remi Garrigue of France during the team men's sabre quarterfinal match between China and France at the 2026 Fencing World Championships in Hong Kong, south China, July 30, 2026. (Xinhua/Lo Ping Fai)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 29, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a corn field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Ren Baoji/Xinhua)
This photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a damaged house in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture has risen to 35, the prefectural government said Friday. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)
This photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a view of the shield tunneling machine "Linghang" at the construction site of the Chongming-Taicang Yangtze River tunnel under China's Yangtze River. China's domestically developed world's largest-diameter high-speed-rail shield tunneling machine "Linghang" completed tunneling of the underwater section of the Chongming-Taicang Yangtze River tunnel on Thursday. The milestone lays the foundation for China's first high-speed railway crossing beneath the Yangtze River at 350 kilometers per hour without slowing down. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
A Chinese egret flies over the Changshan Archipelago in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, July 29, 2026. On Monday, the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Busan, the Republic of Korea, approved the boundary modification of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China, officially incorporating the Changshan Archipelago into the World Heritage list. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)
