BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
A parent kisses her daughter before the exam at a national college entrance examination site in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2026. This year's national college entrance exam, also known as the gaokao, kicked off Sunday nationwide. (Xinhua/Li Xin)Zhang Guimei (1st L), principal of the Huaping Senior High School for Girls, sings with students on the way back to school after exams in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on June 7, 2026. This year's national college entrance exam, also known as the gaokao, kicked off on Sunday nationwide. At the Huaping Senior High School for Girls, 69-year-old Zhang Guimei, the principal of the school, has seen examinees off for the college entrance exam for 16 consecutive years since the school's first group of graduates took the exam in 2011. Zhang, the principal of a girls school in Yunnan's mountainous areas, has been dedicated to helping rural girls improve their lives and chase their dreams through education and knowledge. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)A farmer arranges newly-harvested saline-alkali wheat in Jiucheng Town of Huanghua City, Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province, June 5, 2026. Saline and alkaline soil is dubbed the "incurable disease" of land due to its low yield characteristics. And parts of the land in Cangzhou City had been eroded by a high level of soil salinization and had little hope of seeing a high yield of wheat for many years. In recent years, the city has cultivated wheat varieties featuring high salinity and alkalinity tolerance. The city has also improved production and cultivation technologies which effectively increase wheat yields. A comprehensive wheat industrial chain ranging from planting to marketing has gradually been established here. (Xinhua/Niu Hairong)A worker welds wheelchair frames in a workshop at a medical device company in Jizhou District of Hengshui City, north China's Hebei Province, June 7, 2026. In recent years, Jizhou District of Hengshui City has cultivated a specialized industrial cluster for medical devices and rehabilitation aids, guiding enterprises to shift toward making intelligent and high-end products. At present, the district hosts over 300 rehabilitation aids medical device manufacturers, providing over 40,000 jobs. (Xinhua/Bei He)A senior resident walks with a kite along the Grand Canal in Gucheng County, Hengshui City, north China's Hebei Province, June 5, 2026. Connecting the Chinese capital Beijing and Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, the Grand Canal, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014, is the world's longest artificial waterway. Stretching approximately 75.1 kilometers, the Gucheng section of the Grand Canal has nourished the land along its banks for centuries and given rise to multiple provincial-level intangible cultural heritages. In recent years, Gucheng County has boosted environmental conservation and cultural tourism development along the Grand Canal, transforming its banks into an ecological corridor with cultural richness. (Xinhua/Sun Huanjie)Mirra Andreeva kisses the trophy during the awarding ceremony after the women's singles final match between Mirra Andreeva of Russia and Maja Chwalinska of Poland at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros, Paris, France, June 6, 2026. (Xinhua/Wu Huiwo)Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan casts his ballot at a polling station in Yerevan, Armenia, June 7, 2026. Voting began on Sunday in Armenia's parliamentary elections, with more than 2.48 million registered voters eligible to cast ballots at 2,005 polling stations across the country. Polling stations opened at 8:00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) and will close at 8:00 p.m. local time. (Xinhua/Chen Junfeng)Security personnel work at the scene of a shooting incident in the Kochav Ya'ir area of central Israel, June 7, 2026. One person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting in central Israel on Sunday before the suspected attacker was shot, in what Israeli security services described as a "terror attack." The shooting occurred at three locations in the Kochav Ya'ir area of central Israel, near the border with the West Bank, according to reports. (Photo by Jamal Awad/Xinhua)People visit the Oriental Bazaar in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 7, 2026. (Photo by Cui Jiaxin/Xinhua)A performer in a themed costume takes part in the fifth Warsaw Mermaid Parade in Warsaw, Poland, June 6, 2026. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/Xinhua)■
