Aerial photo taken on Oct 15, 2019 shows China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, that is to depart at the Shekou cruise home port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province. China's first domestically made polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 started its maiden voyage to the Antarctic from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen Tuesday. Xuelong 2 set sail on the country's 36th Antarctic expedition. Another icebreaker named Xuelong will also join the expedition, making it the first time that two polar icebreakers work together on China's Antarctic expedition. [Photo/Xinhua]
A ceremony is held for the maiden voyage of the China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, at the Shekou cruise home port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Oct 15, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
Expedition team and crew members wave goodbye as the China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, departs from the Shekou cruise home port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Oct 15, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
People wave goodbye as the China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, departs from the Shekou cruise home port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Oct 15, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, departs from the Shekou cruise home port in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Oct 15, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
A porcelain vase on show. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
Wishes for well-being and longevity were often at the heart of a variety of Chinese artifacts, including jade carvings, bronze wares, Chinese paintings, calligraphic scrolls and ceramics, to name a few.
An exhibition now on at the Summer Palace in Beijing brings together 99 such artifacts, demonstrating the richness of traditional Chinese crafts. They are on show through Jan 30.
A crouching oxen carved out of jade on show. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
One-third of the objects are on public display for the first time, such as a 3,000-year-old bronze gui vessel, the oldest item in this show, and a jade statue of a crouching oxen that weighs some 80 grams.
Students show paintings made of grains & beans in an activity held for the World Food Day at Qiaoxi Foreign Language Primary School in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
Pupils learn to recognize grains in an activity held for the World Food Day at Qiaoxi Foreign Language Primary School in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
A boy takes part in a corn shelling competition in an activity held for the World Food Day at Qiaoxi Foreign Language Primary School in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
A teacher gives a lesson of paddy rice in an activity held for the World Food Day at Qiaoxi Foreign Language Primary School in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 16, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Xiao)
Riders compete in the Union Internationale Motonautique - Aquabike Promotion Grand Prix in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, which ended on Sunday. The event is one of the fastest, most demanding and entertaining sports on water attracting the world’s best riders.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Riders are lifted into the air as they perform during the Union Internationale Motonautique - Aquabike Promotion Grand Prix in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, which ended on Sunday.
A rider from China competes in the Union Internationale Motonautique - Aquabike Promotion Grand Prix in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, which ended on Sunday.
Customs display some of the electronic goods seized in Tuesday evening's operation in Hong Kong, Oct. 17, 2019. A batch of suspected smuggled electronic goods including hard disks, USB drives and other electronic parts worth some HK$20 million were seized. (Photo/China News Service)
A visitor views the egg shell porcelain bowl decorated with the famous Chinese painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" made by the team "Kuaixueshiqing" in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province, Oct. 15, 2019.
A member of the team "Kuaixueshiqing" dusts porcelain works in Jingdezhen, east China's Jiangxi Province, Oct. 15, 2019.
Egg shell porcelain, a renowned kind of traditional porcelain work produced in Jingdezhen of Jiangxi, is famous for its thin and transparent body which makes it special. Wang Minhui, 40, is head of the egg shell porcelain making team called "Kuaixueshiqing". Wang and his two partners Du Xingyu and Liu Zhen, who take interest in porcelain, founded the team in 2010. The team, now having over 20 members, has insisted in striving for perfection in the craft, and has made in 2013 an egg shell porcelain bowl decorated with the famous Chinese painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", which boasts of a thickness of less than one millimeter and was painted all in reversed direction. The making of egg shell porcelain requires over ten procedures and firing of three times, all made with hands. Members of the team spend at least two months in preparing a piece of porcelain work with a thickness of about one millimeter. Wang said his team is making efforts to apply the latest formula of porcelain to the making of antique ones, so as to create more porcelain styles. (Xinhua/Hu Chenhuan)
Art teacher Huang Haitao makes her paper-cuts featuring 56 Chinese ethnic groups in Haikou City, South China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 16, 2019. Huang and her friends spent three years creating those works, each at 73 centimeters long and 48 centimeters wide. These creations highlighted the distinctive costumes and cultural symbols of each ethnic group.(Photo: China News Service/Luo Yunfei)
Art teacher Huang Haitao shows her paper-cuts featuring 56 Chinese ethnic groups in Haikou City, South China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 16, 2019..(Photos: China News Service/Luo Yunfei)
Ouyang Xixi(R) of China defends during a Round 1 match of Group A of Women's volleyball preliminary between China and the United States at the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 16, 2019. China won. 3 games to zero.(Xinhua/Liu Xu)
Yuan Xinyue(C) of China celebrates scoring during a Round 1 match of Group A of Women's volleyball preliminary between China and the United States at the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 16, 2019.(Xinhua/Liu Xu)
Players of China salute before a Round 1 match of Group A of Women's volleyball preliminary between China and the United States at the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 16, 2019.(Xinhua/Liu Xu)
Yuan Xinyue(L) and her teamamte Wang Yunlu(R) of China defend during a Round 1 match of Group A of Women's volleyball preliminary between China and the United States at the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 16, 2019.(Xinhua/Li He)
Players of China celebrate scoring during a Round 1 match of Group A of Women's volleyball preliminary between China and the United States at the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 16, 2019.(Xinhua/Li He)