BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
This aerial photo taken on April 26, 2023 shows the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. The 19th Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou between September 23 and October 8, featuring a total of 40 sports. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The highly anticipated Asian Games can help boost the popularity of Hangzhou where history and modernity co-exist and further promote its culture. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
This aerial photo taken on Sept. 13, 2023 shows students from Xiong'an Shijia Hutong primary school performing setting-up exercise on the playground in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province. The Xiong'an Shijia Hutong primary school welcomed its first batch of 138 new students for the autumn semester after completion. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)
This photo taken on Aug. 24, 2023 shows "Lucky Dolls" along the zigzag watercourse of the Yellow River in Ruoergai County, southwest China's Sichuan Province. In 2016, a handicraft cooperative was established in Baihe community. Members of the cooperative integrated local traditional culture and modern design into a handmade doll named "Lucky Doll". Sold both at home and abroad, the "Lucky Doll" has become a distinctive local industry and increased the residents' income. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)
Tashi Choepel grazes in Duosong Village, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Aug. 17, 2023.
Shepherd Tashi Choepel, 41 years old, lives with his wife, son and daughter in Duosong Village in the center of the Hequ Grassland, which is located along the Yellow River bordering northwest China's Qinghai and Gansu provinces and southwest China's Sichuan Province.
He raises over 300 cattle and 400 plus sheep in his pasturage. His wife Dougekyi and daughter Rinchen Dolma milk them after breakfast everyday. The milk can bring about 300 yuan (about 41.3 U.S. dollars) per day for the family when the production and market are fine.
The family will move to their winter pasturage in October. When his wife milks, Tashi Choepel will graze on horse or on motorcycle. With stable public order, he has no need to worry about the stealing of his livestock. His major problem comes with the wolves as the ecological environment improves a lot. With years of grazing experience, he can feel whether there are wolves near the sheep. If not, he will go home for dinner at noon; Otherwise, he will eat some dry food and keeps an eye on the sheep.
Tashi Choepel's son Sonam Gyeltsen, 20 years old, studies in a school in Huangnan prefecture of Qinghai and wants to be a teacher in the future. His daughter Rinchen Dolma, 18 years old, studies at a high school now and wants to go to college in Chengdu of southwest Sichuan Province in the future. During the summer vacation, both of them will help with the grazing. Tashi Choepel is satisfied with his life now and respects the wills of his children. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
Photo taken on Sept. 14, 2023 shows the beginning ceremony during the torch relay of the 19th Asian Games in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)
Indonesian President Joko Widodo walks in the cabin of a high-speed electric multiple unit (EMU) train for the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia, Sept. 13, 2023. Indonesian President Joko Widodo took a ride Wednesday on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR), a landmark project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. Speaking highly of the efforts made by Chinese and Indonesian workers, Widodo said the Jakarta-Bandung HSR would officially start commercial operation in early October. (Xinhua/Xu Qin)
Kunqu Opera actor Shi Xiaming (L) and actress Kong Aiping stage a flash mob performance near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, Sept. 13, 2023. Artists from east China's Jiangsu Province presented the charm of Kunqu Opera through a series of flash mob performances near the iconic landmarks in Paris. (Xinhua/Gao Jing)
President-elect Tharman Shanmugaratnam (C) is sworn in at Istana, the country's presidential palace, in Singapore, on Sept. 14, 2023. Tharman took the oath as Singapore's ninth president here on Thursday evening. (Xinhua/Then Chih Wey)
This photo taken on Sept. 13, 2023 shows deer in the Rambouillet forest near Paris, France. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua)■
