Xinhua Photo Daily | June 24, 2023

BEIJING, June 24(Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.

This aerial photo taken on June 22, 2023 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province. China's FAST telescope identified a binary pulsar with an orbital period of 53.3 minutes, the shortest known period for a pulsar binary system. The research, mainly conducted by a team led by scientists from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), was published in the journal Nature Wednesday. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

Participants take part in a dragon boat race in Diejiao Township of Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, June 22, 2023. With a narrow and winding river, Diejiao Township holds the dragon boat race annually for the Dragon Boat Festival. Participants must drift the 25-meter-long vessel around shapes curved like S, C, and L at full speed. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

A tourist shields herself from the sunshine with a paper bag at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, capital of China, June 23, 2023. Beijing issued a red alert for the high temperature at 7 a.m. Friday. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

A fisherman displays a newly-caught fish at the Bosten Lake in Bohu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 23, 2023. The fishing festival was held here on Friday to greet the new fishing season. Late summer and autumn are the harvesting seasons for fishing in Bosten Lake. Located in the central part of Xinjiang, Bosten Lake is the country's largest inland freshwater lake and it is the biggest fishery base in Xinjiang. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaocheng)

An artist performs a show of intangible cultural heritage in the ancient city of Kashgar scenic area in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)

Participants take part in the World Refugee Day Run organized by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Egypt in Cairo, Egypt on June 23, 2023. World Refugee Day is marked on June 20 each year. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

Piles of cheese are pictured at a cheese market in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, on June 23, 2023. Every Friday in the small town of Alkmaar, cheesemongers sell their products at the Alkmaar cheese market. (Photo by Sylvia Lederer/Xinhua)

This aerial photo taken on June 18, 2023 shows team members of Amathus Dragon Boat Club competing during the 2023 UK Chinese Dragon Boat Festival in Salford, Britain. David Bangs, the founder of the Amathus Dragon Boat Club, first became involved with the sport as a paddler in 1988 when he went to China's Fujian Province to compete in an international dragon boat race. When Bangs returned from his trip to China, he founded the Amathus Dragon Boat Club. (Xinhua/Li Ying)

Farmers thresh hybrid rice in Kihanga, Bubanza Province, Burundi, June 20, 2023. Known as the "heart of Africa", the East African country Burundi has a tropical climate with abundant rainfall. Its natural conditions are favorable to rice production, but the low yield of local rice production makes Burundians long suffer from food shortages. To address such a challenge, China has been implementing technical cooperation programs in Burundi since August 2009, sending experts to the African country to help develop agriculture. (Xinhua/Han Xu)■