This stack composite photo taken on May 27, 2025 shows a paddy rice field under the starry sky in Fujin, Jiamusi City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
With paddy rice transplanting largely concluded in Heilongjiang, the vast black soil in the province is now dressed in green, hinting the hope for a bountiful harvest. The Milky Way spreading across a starry sky is mirrored in waterlogged paddy rice fields, making a breathtaking scene in the early summer night. (Photo by Qu Yubao/Xinhua)
Rescuers and engineering vehicles work amid a search and rescue operation at the site of a landslide in Bobos Village, Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia, May 30, 2025.
Landslides occurred at a quarry in Indonesia's West Java Province on Friday, leaving at least seven people dead and 12 others injured, with three people missing, a rescuer said. (Photo by Arya W./Xinhua)
A farmer harvests wheat in a field in Dongjunying Village of Baofeng County, Pingdingshan City, central China's Henan Province, May 28, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)
Liang Shiyu (L) of China U-16 team celebrates his goal during the match between China U-16 team and Vietnam U-16 team at 2025 CFA Team China International Tournament in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 30, 2025. (Xinhua/Bei He)
Children play in the pool at a kindergarten ahead of the International Children's Day in Boxing County of Binzhou City, east China's Shandong Province, May 28, 2025. (Photo by Chen Bin/Xinhua)
A woman arranges Dunhuang cultural theme exhibits after the opening ceremony of the fourth Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 30, 2025.
About 400 people attended the meeting, including political leaders, scholars, and heads of international organizations and non-governmental organizations from multiple countries. (Xinhua/Zhang Ling)
This image, produced by Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in April 2025, shows a structure diagram of the Jiao-tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST).
China's astronomical research is poised for a transformative leap with the construction of the Jiao-tong University Spectroscopic Telescope (JUST), the nation's first large, general-purpose spectroscopic telescope, commencing on Wednesday.
JUST, with its 4.4-meter primary mirror composed of 18 lightweight hexagonal segments, will feature three cutting-edge instruments: a multi-object fiber spectrograph to explore the "dark universe," an integral field spectrograph to track cosmic transients, and a high-resolution spectrograph to detect exoplanets. (Shanghai Jiao Tong University/Handout via Xinhua)
A contestant places a spaghetti bridge on the instrument used to test its load-bearing capacity at the 10th Jubilee World Championship in Spaghetti Bridge Building, held at Obuda University in Budapest, Hungary on May 29, 2025. (Photo by David Balogh/Xinhua)
A teacher draws a dot with cinnabar on a child's forehead at a kindergarten in Hailing District of Taizhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 30, 2025.
Various activities are held across the country to welcome this year's Dragon Boat Festival that falls on Saturday. (Photo by Tang Dehong/Xinhua)
Students cheer during commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States, May 29, 2025.
A U.S. federal judge on Thursday extended a Temporary Restraining Order on Trump Administration's policy that aimed to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students.
Temporary Restraining Order "will remain in place" while parties confer and submit either a joint proposed preliminary injunction order or individual proposed orders for the judge to consider, after which time a final preliminary injunction order will be issued, according to court document from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. (Photo by Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua)
