BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
This video snapshot captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Aug. 15, 2025 shows Shenzhou-20 astronauts Chen Dong (L) and Wang Jie performing extravehicular activities outside China's orbiting space station. The Shenzhou-20 crew aboard China's orbiting space station completed their mission's third series of extravehicular activities on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). (Xinhua/Yin Jiajie)This photo shows the new evidence of Unit 731 unveiled by the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2025. New evidence of Unit 731 -- a Japanese germ-warfare unit that operated during World War II -- was unveiled on Friday in Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The new evidence includes 3,010 pages of archive documents, 194 minutes of video footage, 312 photographs, 12 postcards and eight letters, exposing Japanese germ-warfare crimes in detail. (Xinhua/Wang Song)This photo taken on Aug. 15, 2025 shows the static fire test of China's Long March-10 carrier rocket at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province. China's Long March-10 carrier rocket, the country's new-generation manned launch vehicle, has successfully completed the first static fire test here on Friday, the China Manned Space Agency has announced. (Xinhua/Zhang Bin)People gather to drink tea at the new house of a villager at Zimgag Village of Dingri County, Xigaze City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 15, 2025. A ceremony was held at Zimgag Village on Friday as a total of 2,578 households, 12,139 residents, affected by the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in January, move to their new houses. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)Giant panda twins Jia Jia (L) and De De enjoy a birthday cake at the Ocean Park Hong Kong, south China's Hong Kong, Aug. 15, 2025. The Ocean Park Hong Kong celebrated the first birthday of the first locally-born panda twins, Jia Jia and De De on Friday. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)U.S. President Donald Trump (R, Rear) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L, Rear) attend a joint press conference after concluding their talks in Anchorage, Alaska, the United States, on Aug. 15, 2025. The talks, held at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in the city of Anchorage, lasted about three hours. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling)Participants are pictured during a demonstration on a street of Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 15, 2025. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday expressed "remorse" in his speech at the annual memorial ceremony for the war dead, as the country marked the 80th anniversary of its unconditional surrender in World War II, but the "remorse" was not on Japan's responsibility for aggression against Asian countries. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng)This photo taken on Aug. 15, 2025 shows houses damaged by a cloudburst at a village in Kishtwar district, about 290 km southeast of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. The death toll from Thursday's cloudburst in Kishtwar district in Indian-controlled Kashmir rose to at least 60. (Str/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 13, 2025 shows a view of the Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan. Issyk-Kul Lake, located in the northeastern part of Kyrgyzstan, covers an area of more than 6,000 square kilometers and ranks as the world's second-largest alpine lake. (Xinhua/Li Renzi)Team China celebrate after the Aerobic Gymnastics Group Final at The World Games 2025 in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)■
