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A robot interacts with children in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Sunday, the first day of a weeklong event promoting the national Constitution. China's National Constitution Day, designed to promote awareness of and education about the Constitution, falls on Wednesday. [Photo by YANG TAO/FOR CHINA DAILY]

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Visitors enjoy the night views during the 2019 Macao Light Festival in South China's Macao, Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Performers are seen during the opening ceremony of the 2019 Macao Light Festival in South China's Macao, Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Taishan speaks with a businesswoman in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

British businessman Nigel Cropp took "Taishan" as his Chinese name because he always gives people the impression of being "as stable as Taishan Mountain".

He has discovered huge opportunities in international trade by introducing Chinese products globally in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province.

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Taishan checks products to be export abroad in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province on Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Taishan came to China to teach English to business people in 2005 and married his student Wu Qin three years later.

To put his marketing skills into practice, Taishan opened an import and export company with his wife in 2008.

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Taishan (2nd left) holds a turkey to treat friends at his western restaurant in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province on Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Relying on Yiwu, "the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities", the couple's business took off. In 2012, Taishan opened a Western restaurant, taking advantage of the city's attractiveness to international business people.

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Taishan (middle) talks with a staff member (right) to learn about logistics of China-Europe freight trains in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province on Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Taishan (right) inquires about processors of doing international trade in China to a staff member (left) in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province on Dec 1, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Photo taken on Dec. 1, 2019 shows the first high-speed train G7787 running from Fuyangxi Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Fuyang, east China's Anhui Province. High-speed railway line linking Shangqiu and Hefei, as well as a section linking Zhengzhou and Fuyang, was put into operation on Sunday. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)



Staff members perform onboard the first high-speed train G7787 running from Fuyangxi Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Dec. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)



An artist performs onboard the first high-speed train G7787 running from (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)



Passengers display their ticket notices onboard the first high-speed train G7787 running from Fuyangxi Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Dec. 1, 2019. . (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)



Staff members and passengers pose for a group photo onboard the first high-speed train G7787 running from Fuyangxi Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, Dec. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)

More than 1,000 pairs of twins from all over the world participate in a twins festival held last week in Southwest China's Yunnan province. [Photo by Ma Chen/for chinadaily.com.cn]

Embroidery work at an exhibition of Bohai Mohe silk embroidery at a creative cultural industrial park in the Chaoyang district of Beijing. [Photo/for chinadaily.com.cn]

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An exhibition of Bohai Mohe silk embroidery, a traditional Manchu embroidery, is underway at a creative cultural industrial park in Chaoyang district in Beijing. It has already attracted lots of visitors.

The exhibition showcases 150 artworks made by Sun Yanling and her 1,371 students, taught over a period of years.

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Sun Yanling, a fourth-generation inheritor of Manchu embroidery from Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo/for chinadaily.com.cn]

"The Bohai Mohe silk embroidery has a unique triangular stitch style," Sun said. Sun is a fourth-generation inheritor of Bohai Mohe silk embroidery hailing from Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. "The embroiderer uses the needle as the brush and creates embroideries as vivid as oil paintings."

Photos taken on Dec 2, 2019 shows visitors trying VR equipment during the 16th China Franchise Industry Carnival, which opened at the China National Convention Center in Beijing on Nov 30. More than 200 franchise brands in catering, education and new economy fields opened their franchise rights to entrepreneurs. [Photos by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

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Children play with educational toys during the 16th China Franchise Industry Carnival on Dec 2, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

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Staff members arrange tremellas during the 16th China Franchise Industry Carnival on Dec 2, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

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Visitors explore a medical salt cube of medical purposes during the 16th China Franchise Industry Carnival on Dec 2, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhaosu county, Kazak autonomous prefecture of Ili, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is known as the “last hometown of pegasus in China.” Many Ili horses and stallions are still kept there. Against the background of the snow mountains far away, it is a spectacular view to see thousands of horses galloping on the vast prairie. (Photos: China News Service/ Li Wenwu)

Instructor Cui Ming (1st R) gives instruction to sales assistants at a supermarket in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 2, 2019. The special supermarket in Xi'an offers job opportunities and skills training to mentally handicapped staff. At present six mentally handicapped people work there. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)

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Sales assistant Xiaoxi (L) works at a supermarket in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 2, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)

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Sales assistant Wu Shuai works at a supermarket in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 2, 2019.

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Sales assistant Xiaoxi (L) serves customers at a supermarket in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 2, 2019. Xinhua/Liu Xiao)

Yu Xiaofeng warms-up before diving into the freezing Songhua River, where recent temperatures dropped to as low as -20 C in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

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Yu Xiaofeng kicks as she swims on her back in the freezing Songhua River, where recently the temperature dropped to as low as -20 C in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

In the past 26 years, Yu Xiaofeng has never curtailed her daily swim in the Songhua River, even when temperature recently dropped to as low as -20 C in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

Yu, 55, a retired civil servant, is famous among winter swim enthusiasts in the city.

"I was born in Harbin and fell in love with swimming in my childhood, but until 1994, I never thought I could swim in the freezing Songhua River," she said. "In the late autumn of that year, I found some of my colleagues swimming in the river and decided to give it a try."

"Because it was not very cold at that time, I finished practice that was quite different from before," she said. "When the weather became gradually cold, I found that I had adapted to the freezing water in the winter."

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Yu Xiaofeng playfully leaps into the freezing Songhua River, even as the temperature recently dropped as low as -20 C in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Photos taken on Dec 1, 2019 shows China's icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2 at an area close to China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. [Photos/Xinhua]