10 photos win awards of "Belt and Road" photo contest

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta waving goodbye to the first freight train destined for Kenya's capital Nairobi on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway on May 30, 2017. [Photo: China Plus]

Ten photos by photographers from Belarus, Laos, Myanmar, Turkey and China won the grand prizes of a photography contest inspired by the Belt and Road Initiative, said the organizer China Radio International (CRI) Wednesday.

This undated photo shows a boy from France and a girl from Belarus playing together by a window in a city in Thailand. [Photo: China Plus]

The winners were selected from about 11,500 photos and groups of photos submitted by people from 47 countries and regions along the Belt and Road, according to CRI.

The contest titled "On the Road" started on Feb. 28.

This undated photo shows the outside of the Dubai Museum in the United Arab Emirates. [Photo: China Plus]

Another 100 photos from 13 countries won prizes for excellence.

The candidates were not only reviewed by a jury of experts but also in an online vote, which received 1.92 million votes from about 750,000 participants.

This undated photo shows fishermen on the Pakokku Bridge. [Photo: China Plus]

Besides photos, the event also received a large number of stories behind the photos, which were "very ebullient and heart-warming."

An undated photo of the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge in the Maldives. [Photo: China Plus]