BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
Performs are staged at the Hetou ancient street scenic area in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, June 2, 2025. China's tourism sector saw steady growth during the 2025 Duanwu Festival holiday, also called Dragon Boat Festival, with domestic trips increasing by 5.7 percent year on year to 119 million, according to data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday. Tourism revenue reached 42.73 billion yuan (5.95 billion U.S. dollars), up 5.9 percent compared with the same holiday last year. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)Tourists enjoy leisure time at Sanya Bay in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2025. (Photo by Chen Wenwu/Xinhua)Zheng Qinwen (L) of China and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus greet each other after the women's singles quarterfinal at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros, Paris, France, June 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Jing)Lee Jae-myung and his wife Kim Hye-kyung celebrate at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on June 4, 2025. Lee Jae-myung of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party was elected president, the ongoing vote count by the National Election Commission showed on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)Staff members transport seed samples into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, on June 3, 2025. Fourteen gene banks from around the world are depositing more than 11,200 seed samples this week at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, underscoring the critical role of crop diversity in future food security. (Crop Trust/Handout via Xinhua)People buy sheep in preparation for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, at a market in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua)A Palestinian woman mourns a victim killed in an Israeli airstrike, at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, on June 2, 2025. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday that its troops had expanded ground operations in the Gaza Strip over the past day. In addition, the Israeli Air Force struck dozens of targets across the Gaza Strip since Sunday. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)■
