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(240521) -- BEIJING, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on May 20, 2024 shows the excavation site of the Wuwangdun tomb discovered in Huainan, east China's Anhui Province. The archaeological excavation at the Wuwangdun tomb in east China's Anhui Province has yielded major findings, unearthing over 3,000 cultural relics, according to China's cultural heritage administration. Earlier this year, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) confirmed the Wuwangdun tomb as the largest and highest-level tomb of the ancient Chu state, which existed more than 2,200 years ago during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC). (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)

CANADA-NEW WESTMINSTER-VICTORIA DAY-ANVIL SALUTE

(240521) -- NEW WESTMINSTER, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A member of the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery fires one of 21 salutes during the Victoria Day Anvil Battery Salute at Queen's Park Stadium in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on May 20, 2024. Anvil salute is an annual tradition in the city of New Westminster dating back to the 1860s on Victoria Day. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)

CANADA-NEW WESTMINSTER-VICTORIA DAY-ANVIL SALUTE

(240521) -- NEW WESTMINSTER, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery burn coal for anvil firing during the Victoria Day Anvil Battery Salute at Queen's Park Stadium in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on May 20, 2024. Anvil salute is an annual tradition in the city of New Westminster dating back to the 1860s on Victoria Day. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)

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(240521) -- BEIJING, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People mourn victims of the helicopter crash near Varzaqan County in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2024. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and some members of his accompanying team, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, were confirmed dead Monday morning as the wreckage of the helicopter carrying them was found following its crash in bad weather on Sunday near Varzaqan County. On Monday afternoon, a large number of people gathered in Tehran, mourning the tragic deaths of Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Governor of East Azarbaijan Province Malek Rahmati and Iran's supreme leader's representative to East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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(240521) -- BEIJING, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Visitors buy Russian sausages during the eighth China-Russia Expo in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, May 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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(240521) -- BEIJING, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People dressed in ethnic costumes attend a cultural carnival in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 18, 2024. (Xinhua/Luo Fei)

CANADA-NEW WESTMINSTER-VICTORIA DAY-ANVIL SALUTE

(240521) -- NEW WESTMINSTER, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery put an anvil in place during the Victoria Day Anvil Battery Salute at Queen's Park Stadium in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on May 20, 2024. Anvil salute is an annual tradition in the city of New Westminster dating back to the 1860s on Victoria Day. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)

CANADA-NEW WESTMINSTER-VICTORIA DAY-ANVIL SALUTE

(240521) -- NEW WESTMINSTER, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A member of the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery fires one of 21 salutes during the Victoria Day Anvil Battery Salute at Queen's Park Stadium in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, on May 20, 2024. Anvil salute is an annual tradition in the city of New Westminster dating back to the 1860s on Victoria Day. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)

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(240521) -- BEIJING, May 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on May 19, 2024 shows a view of the Baisha Lake scenic area in Akto County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Yin Xingyu)

AmazingAnhui | Yangtze alligator guardian in E China nature reserve

(240520) -- HEFEI, May 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 13, 2024 shows a captive-born Yangtze alligator in Xiadu area in Anhui Yangtze alligator national nature reserve, Xuancheng City, east China's Anhui Province. The Yangtze alligator, which has lived on Earth for over 200 million years, is a first-class protected animal endemic to China. The species, also known as Chinese alligator, lives along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the longest waterway in the country. Zhang Hongan lives near the Hongxing Reservoir in Xuancheng City, where he once accidentally found the trail of wild Yangtze alligators in 1982. In the more than 40 years from then on, Zhang's parents and brother had become rangers for Yangtze alligators. In 2024, Zhang Hongan took over the duty, working as a field ranger in Anhui Yangtze alligator national nature reserve. Today, 26 rangers and 170 micro-grid staff are devoted in the protection of the habitat of Yangtze alligators. The Anhui Yangtze alligator na

LESOTHO-MASERU-MOSHOESHOE'S DAY-COMMEMORATION

(240312) -- MASERU, March 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rangers march during the Moshoeshoe's Day commemoration in Maseru, Lesotho, March 11, 2024. The Moshoeshoe's Day is celebrated annually by Basotho on March 11 to commemorate the death of Moshoeshoe I. (Xinhua/Zhang Yudong)

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