From highs to lows, these photos capture some of the country’s top news stories, as well as candid moments in the lives of ordinary people. 

Tencent’s Chief Executive Officer Pony Ma (left) and Alibaba’s Executive Chairman Jack Ma chat at the end of an event marking the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Dec. 18, 2018. 

Meeting of the year.

Two cloned macaque, Zhongzhong and Huahua, play in their terrarium at a nonhuman primate-research facility in Shanghai, Jan. 20, 2018.

A crow pecks at the fur on a giant panda’s backside at the Beijing Zoo, April 9, 2018. 

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Contestants on the televised talent show ‘Produce 101’ pose for a group photo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, May 14, 2018. 

Ninety-year-old Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-Shing (center) attends a graduation ceremony at Shantou University in Shantou, Guangdong province, June 29, 2018. 

A worker cleans aqua-culture ponds after 7 tons of leaked chemical dissolved fishing cages in Quanzhou, Fujian province, Nov. 9, 2018.

Wonder how long it took for the traffic to go away...

Vehicles are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic as they leave a port where ferry service was suspended over the Chinese New Year holiday due to heavy fog, Haikou, Hainan province, Feb. 21, 2018.

People take photos of a child wearing a traditional hairpiece before a folk performance in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, April 18, 2018. 

Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui greets spectators after a race during the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, Dec. 15, 2018.

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese mobile communications giant Huawei, is escorted by her private security detail to a parole office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dec. 12, 2018.

Robots dance during the 2018 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Aug. 15, 2018. 

People help evacuate pigs during a flash flood in Shou’an Town, Chengdu, Sichuan province, July 2, 2018.

The 55-kilometer Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is seen illuminated at dusk from Hong Kong, Oct. 21, 2018.

Which photo do you like best?   

What is your best moment in 2018? 

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Source / SixthTone

Writer / Clara

Designer / Nancy