Tourists visit the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Dec 17, 2025. TIAN WEITAO/FOR CHINA DAILY
Students compete in a shoulder-pole grain transport race at a primary school in Hefei's Luyang district, Anhui province, on Dec 17, 2025. ZHAO MING/FOR CHINA DAILY
Participants visit an exhibition area of the 2025 annual conference of the Cross-Strait CEO Summit in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Dec 16, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
A national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims is held at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Dec 13, 2025. [Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/China Daily]
This photo taken on Dec 13, 2025 shows the Geminid meteor shower in the sky over Huachuan county, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Cement piers of the old wharf trestle emerge from the Yangtze River as water levels plummet in Wuchang district of Wuhan, Hubei province, on Dec 16, 2025. The trestle and old rails of the former train ferry terminal, usually submerged, resurfaced, revealing their weathered conditions to the public. ZHANG CHANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Devotees light butter lamps at the Kumbum Monastery in Xining, Northwest China's Qinghai province, to pray for happiness and good health through the night on Dec 14, 2025. The Butter Lamp Festival commemorates Tsong Khapa, a master of Tibetan Buddhism. The annual festival is observed on the 25th day of the 10th month in the Tibetan calendar. MA MINGYAN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE
The world's largest-diameter shield machine for constructing high-speed railway tunnels, independently developed by China, marks its 10,000-meter tunneling milestone under the Yangtze River on Dec 16, 2025. With only 1,000 meters remaining to the southern bank of the Yangtze, the boring operation is expected to conclude in late 2026. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/China Daily]
Skiers enjoy the snow at Caiwei Manor ski resort on Dec 13, 2025 in Shuigou village, Xinghualing district, Taiyuan, Shanxi province. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]
A visitor focuses on a Tang Dynasty (618-907) Buddha statue at the Fusion and Evolution — Stone Carvings of Nannieshui exhibition in the Shanxi Museum in Taiyuan on Dec 16, 2025. HU YUANJIA/FOR CHINA DAILY
