People enjoy festive lanterns in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
People enjoy festive lanterns in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 1, 2018. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)
Students practice painting in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 31, 2017. Art students are busy preparing for the upcoming art exams. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
Students comb before a physique class in an art training school in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 22, 2017. Art students are busy preparing for the upcoming art exams. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
Students write calligraphy in a calligraphy school in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 21, 2017. Art students are busy preparing for the upcoming art exams. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
Contestants carve ice sculptures during an international ice sculpture competition in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2018. Fourteen teams from home and abroad participated in the contest. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
Children look at a sugar painting during the intangible cultural heritage exhibition in Puyuan Town of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 1, 2018. The exhibition displayed the local delicacy, handmade crafts and intangible cultural heritage performances to greet the New Year. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
People watch performances during the intangible cultural heritage exhibition in Puyuan Town of Tongxiang City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 1, 2018. The exhibition displayed the local delicacy, handmade crafts and intangible cultural heritage performances to greet the New Year. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
A teacher shows primary school students Chinese calligraphy during an extracurricular activity in Handan, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 31, 2017, to greet the upcoming new year. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
Passengers use mobile payment to take subway at the Dayanta Station of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 1, 2017. Passengers of Xi'an can take the subway by using the "Xi'an Subway" app or scanning the QR code of Alipay since Monday. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)
More than 2,000 fish are stacked to form a 10-meter-long wall during winter fishing at Chagan Lake, Songyuan City, Northeast China’s Jilin Province, Dec. 28, 2017. The lake, used by emperors as a fishing site in times past, is known for its rich fish resources. Today winter fishing, including the centuries-old technique of drilling holes and casting nets in low temperatures, has become a tourist attraction. (Photo/IC)
A dog-shaped butter statue on display at a hotel in Shenyang City, the capital of Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 1, 2018. It took 20 days and 150 kilograms of butter to create the 3.6-meter-tall, 1.3-meter-wide statue. In Chinese astrology, each year is related to a zodiac animal following a 12-year cycle. 2018 will be the Year of Dog. (Photo: China News Service/Yu Haiyang)
Winter swimming lovers takesa dip in frigid waters to celebrate the New Year at the Nanhu Park in Changchun City, Jilin Province, Jan. 1, 2018. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Yao)
Contestants carve ice sculptures during an international ice sculpture competition in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2018. Fourteen teams from home and abroad participated in the contest. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)
Staff members hold a poster reminding the sale of tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush at Kaili railway station in Kaili City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 2, 2018. Train tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush go on sale on Jan. 3, 2018. China's transport system is often put to the test during the annual travel rush around the Spring Festival. The period is called "chunyun," which literally means "Spring Festival transport." During Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 15 this year, hundreds of millions of Chinese will go back to their hometowns to celebrate the most important holiday of the year with their families. (Xinhua/Wu Jibin)
A staff member debugs a ticket vending machine at Kaili railway station in Kaili City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 2, 2018. Train tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush go on sale on Jan. 3, 2018.
Fire fighters introduce the equipment on a fire truck to students in Bozhou, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 2, 2018. Fire fighters were invited to carry out fire safety education at a local primary school to arouse students' consciousness of fire safety on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zhang Yanlin)
Fire fighters teach students to put out a fire with a fire hose in Bozhou, east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 2, 2018.
Newly-weds walk on the red carpet in Senlinhai ecological park of Jinfeng District in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Dec. 28, 2017. Nine newly-weds from China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd. held a group wedding on Thursday. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai)
A pupil of Xichang Elementary School practices performing skills of Peking Opera in Chengdong Town of Hai'an County in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 2, 2018. The school set up a Peking Opera club and invites professional performers to teach the children. (Xinhua/Xiang Zhonglin)
A teacher puts on make-up for a pupil of Xichang Elementary School in Chengdong Town of Hai'an County in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 2, 2018.
A teacher teaches pupils of Xichang Elementary School to perform Peking Opera in Chengdong Town of Hai'an County in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 2, 2018.
A staff member of China Post presents the to-be-issued zodiac stamps for the upcoming Year of the Dog in Weifang, east China's Shandong Province on Jan. 3, 2018. China Post will issue a set of special zodiac stamps for the Year of Dog with two different designs this Friday. (Xinhua/Zhang Chi)
Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2017 shows a penguin walking past icebreaker Xuelong near China-built Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. China's research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, set sail from Shanghai, east China, on Nov. 8, beginning the country's 34th Antarctic expedition. (Xinhua/Bai Guolong)
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is lit up on Dec 31, 2017. A lighting ceremony was held on Sunday to mark the completion of the majority of the work on the world's longest sea bridge. It took six years of preparation and eight years to build the 55-kilometer-long bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao. [Photo/VCG]