BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
This aerial photo taken on June 13, 2023 shows people taking part in a crayfish dinner in Xuyi, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
This photo shows a museum displaying the history of Palace Museum antiques moved there during World War II in southwest China's Chongqing, June 10, 2023. The museum is located in a former foreign firm, where nearly 4,000 cases of antiques were stored during wartime. The items from the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, were moved to Chongqing in late 1930s when Japanese troops invaded Beijing. During the Japanese bombing of Chongqing in the following years, the foreign firm placed a Swedish flag on the roof, which protected the building from being targeted. After the war ended in 1945, the antiques were returned to Beijing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)
People visit a lotus pool in Huangshui Town of Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 13, 2023. (Photo by Li Xiangyu/Xinhua)
A tourist takes photos in Chongqing's Opening Port Heritage Park in southwest China's Chongqing, June 9, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)
This aerial photo taken on June 12, 2023 shows the scenery of a grassland in Xilingol League of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)
People inspect a destroyed vehicle following an Israeli army raid at the Balata refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Ayman Nobani/Xinhua)
Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca leads a government meeting at Victoria Palace in Bucharest, Romania, June 11, 2023. Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca announced his resignation on Monday and said he expected the country's new government to be inaugurated "by the end of the week." (Photo by Cristian Cristel/Xinhua)
A wax statue of U.S. actor Morgan Freeman is on display at the Wax Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 13, 2023. For the first time in Iraq, wax statues of Iraqi and foreign art and sports figures were exhibited at the Wax Museum in Baghdad. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)
A woman poses for photos at a birthday party of giant panda Xiang Xiang in Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2023. Xiang Xiang was born in June 2017 at Ueno Zoo, where she gained much popularity. Her parents Shin Shin (female) and Ri Ri (male) were both on loan from China, where the ownership of the cubs they give birth to belongs. It was the first time a panda cub was born at Ueno Zoo in nearly 29 years. The giant panda returned to China in February this year. (Xinhua/Yue Chenxing)■
