BEIJING, Jan. 31, 2019 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 30, 2020 shows employees from China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. working at the construction site of Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. More than 4,000 workers and around 1,000 vehicles and large pieces of machinery have been toiling away at the hospital site day and night. The hospital is expected to be put into use on Feb. 3. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)
A woman listens to a debate at Huawei Cyber Security Transparency Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 30, 2020. Huawei held the debate on 5G cyber security toolbox on Thursday, following the issuance of the EU 5G "toolbox". The European Commission on Wednesday issued the non-binding guidelines -- agreed by 28 member states -- known as a "toolbox" for 5G security, where the EU sets out detailed mitigation plans for each of the identified risks and recommends a set of key strategic and technical measures. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng)
Staff members unload protective suits purchased by Zall Foundation to aid the coronavirus control efforts from a cargo plane at Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
Li Lanjuan, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who heads the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, receives an interview with Xinhua in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after winning the men's singles semifinal match against Roger Federer of Switzerland at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)
Farmers check water coming from their solar powered water pump in Bani Hashish district on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 30, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)
A researcher of Stermirna Therapeutics Co., Ltd. shows the experiment to develop an mRNA vaccine targeting the novel coronavirus in east China's Shanghai, Jan. 29, 2020. Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University and Stermirna Therapeutics Co., Ltd. have launched a program to develop an mRNA vaccine targeting the novel coronavirus. Developers say manufacturing the vaccine samples will need no more than 40 days. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)
A panda cub plays as it comes out at its enclosure for the first time at the Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 30, 2020. Giant Panda "Meng Meng" gave birth to two baby pandas "Meng Xiang" and "Meng Yuan" on Aug. 31, 2019, to father Jiao Qing. (Xinhua/Wang Qing)
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 30, 2020 shows the construction site of Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Wuhan is building two hospitals to treat pneumonia patients infected with the novel coronavirus. As of Thursday noon, about 40 percent of the Leishenshan Hospital has been completed, and it is expected to be put into use on Feb. 5. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, sails in the Southern Ocean before it crosses the prime meridian and enters the Western Hemisphere on Jan. 30, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Shiping)■
