Xinhua Portraits | Paternal love transcending boundaries around the world

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Wang Gang,who lost his arms due to an accidental electric shock at the age of 13, plays with his son Rourou at his house at Hexi Village, Changtu County, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Aug. 8, 2019. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

**The cultures in different countries may be various, but the paternal love is universal and transcends boundaries. Follow the lens of Xinhua photographers and enjoy the cherished moments on Father's Day. **

Beijing, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Editor's choice of Xinhua Portraits on the occasion of Father's Day 2020 which falls on Sunday, June 21.

David Beckham and his daughter Harper Beckham watch the quarter-final match between England and Norway at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup at Stade Oceane in Le Havre, France, June 27, 2019. (Xinhua/Cheng Tingting)

A father carrying his kid walks against rainfall at Boudha in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 20, 2019. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)

A father takes a selfie with his baby in the 2018 Color Me Rad 5K Run at Downsview Park in Toronto, Canada, on May 12, 2018. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

Wang Congyang (L) plays weiqi (go) with his father at home as local education administration advises students to make fewer trips outside and avoid crowds amid novel coronavirus outbreak in Yunyang County, southwest China's Chongqing, Feb. 6, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Zheng Jiawei, a grassroots worker engaging in the country's poverty eradication battle, helps his daughter Chu Siyang with her schoolwork in Wangli Village of Yingshang County, east China's Anhui Province, June 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)

Saihanjiya's father helps her tie the ribbon in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilingol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Ren Junchuan)

Jiang Hao, chief engineer of phase-one construction of Chuzhou-Nanjing intercity railway, hugs his son Jiang Fengzhe beside his wife Ke Jinglan at the encampment near the construction site in Chuzhou, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)

Guan Yongkang helps his son, who was born with cerebral palsy and suffered from amyotrophy, exercise at the gym in Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 11, 2019. (Xinhua/Xue Yubin)

Liao Binsheng chats with his disabled daughter Liao Yonghong at home in Yushui District of Xinyu City, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 12, 2018. (Xinhua/Hu Chenhuan)

A father holds his daughter at the refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece, Nov. 29, 2019. (Photo by Lefteris Partsalis/Xinhua)

A man gives drink to his daughter during the Riga Street Food Festival in Riga, Latvia, on Jan. 18, 2020. (Photo by Janis/Xinhua)

A fan of England kisses his daughter before the quarterfinal between England and Norway at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in Le Havre, France, on June 27, 2019. (Xinhua/Cheng Tingting)

Medical worker Hao Tiedan holds his newborn daughter before leaving for central China's Hubei Province to fight against the novel coronavirusin in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 4, 2020. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)

Wang Changfu (R), waves goodbye to his three-year-old daughter on train K4051 as the Spring Festival travel rush starts at Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)

Little girl Ding Yiran picks loquats with her father at a loquat base in Tangqi Town, Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 15, 2018. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)

A father teaches his children drawing during the lockdown of COVID-19 pandemic in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan, May 9, 2020. (Photo by Kawa Basharat/Xinhua)

Pan Wenming, a man who took the whole family out of poverty through hard work in a small mountain village in Guangxi, plays with his daughter in Tunqiu Village of Pingshan Township in Luzhai County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, April 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

A father and his son pick garbage by the Jialing River in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Oct. 13, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Du Xinwen (L) watches his father Du Qingren adjust a reed of Lusheng, a reed-pipe wind instrument, in Xiaosang Village of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 30, 2019. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)

Qin Chunlan, Qin Qiulan and Qin Xingwang take their father's tricycle to Mawuzhai boarding school in Lingchuan County, north China's Shanxi Province, on June 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Chenguang)

Wu You, an eight-year-old villager of Dong ethnic group at Sizhai Village, watches a wrestling competition with his father Wu Fagui (L) and grandfather Wu Zhiji (R) before competing in the traditional Wrestling Festival in Sizhai Village of Shuangjiang Township, Liping County, Miao-Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Qiandongnan, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

Bronze medalist Andre De Grasse of Canada greets the audience while holding his daughter after the men's 100m final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 28, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Jingqiang)

Migrant worker Tan Hongbo plays with his daughter after finishing his work at an urban village in Qingshanhu District, Nanchang city, east China's Jiangxi province, Aug. 12, 2019. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)