Xinhua Photos of the Day (July 19)

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

Armed police officers move sandbags on the embankment in Poyang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

Aerial photo taken on July 17, 2020 shows a view of Hanjiang wetland in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

A boy cools himself during the Paris Plages event in Paris, France, on July 18, 2020. The Paris Plages city beach event is held from July 18 to Aug. 30, offering events and activities on the banks of the Seine and the Bassin de la Villette. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua)

Fighter planes of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) rehearse flying in formation in preparation for the national day parade in Singapore on July 18, 2020. Singapore will celebrate its 55th anniversary of independence on Aug. 9. (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)

A mechanic inspects a train at a train maintenance workshop in Nanning City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 17, 2020. The railway staff stepped up the maintenance of high-speed trains to ensure traffic safety as summer holidays drove up travel demand. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

President of the European Council Charles Michel (R) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greet each other by touching elbows at the EU headquarters in Brussels, July 18, 2020. EU leaders are meeting physically in Brussels for the first time since March in a bid to find an agreement on the bloc's next long-term budget, which would also include measures to help Europe recover from the coronavirus pandemic. (European Union/Handout via Xinhua)

People walk past the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C., the United States, July 17, 2020. U.S. output is expected to contract by an annualized rate of 37 percent in the second quarter and by 6.6 percent for 2020 as a whole, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff said on Friday, after concluding an annual Article IV review of the U.S. economy. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

Aerial photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows tourists amid lotus flowers in Nanpingzhuang Village of Luanzhou, north China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)

Photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows a water gauge of a hydrological station in Yangtze River in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. The water resources department of east China's Jiangsu Province raised its flood alert level to the highest of red for the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River at 9 a.m. Saturday after a record-high water level was seen in the section. (Photo by Su Yang/Xinhua)

A Palestinian boy rides a skateboard near a port in Gaza City, July 17, 2020. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

Aerial photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows the Three Gorges Dam opening the floodgates to discharge the floodwater on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province. The Three Gorges reservoir in central China's Hubei Province has seen the second flood along the Yangtze River in 2020, the largest one arriving at the reservoir so far this year.

At 8 a.m. on Saturday, the inbound flow of water reached 61,000 cubic meters per second while the outbound flow was 33,000 cubic meters per second, with 45 percent of floodwater withheld in the reservoir, according to the China Three Gorges Corporation. (Photo by Zheng Jiayu/Xinhua)

A rescue team disinfect the street in flood-hit Wuqiao subdistrict in Wanzhou District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, July 18, 2020. After a flood hit many streets along the Wuqiao River on Thursday, rescuers helped local residents clear debris. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

Players of Indonesia Amputee Football (INAF) attend a training session in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 18, 2020. The training session resumed with the health protocol after four months of stopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Xinhua/Zulkarnain)

Aerial photo taken on July 18, 2020 shows a view of garden expo park in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province. Located in Duoba Town of Huangzhong District, the first phase of the garden expo park opens to public for free. With a total planned area of 6,540 mu (about 436 hectares), the park is featured with plateau gardens, natural scenery, local culture and other characteristic landscapes. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)■