Photos taken on Dec. 18, 2019 shows the accident site of a bus crash on Fanling Highway in Sheung Shui area in Hong Kong, south China. Death toll from the bus crash in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday afternoon has risen to six after a female succumbed to her injury, according to local authorities. A double-decker bus owned by the Kowloon Motor Bus Company crashed into a tree at 4:18 p.m. local time on Fanling Highway in Sheung Shui area. (Xinhua)
Aerial photo taken on Dec. 18, 2019 shows the coal mine where a coal and gas outburst happened in Anlong County, southwest China's Guizhou Province.
Sixteen miners were killed after a coal and gas outburst happened at the coal mine in Guizhou early Tuesday, local authorities said on Wednesday. Rescue work has ended and investigation is underway. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
A volunteer administers an amusing game on garbage classification for pupils at the Juyuan Primary School in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 18, 2019. Youth volunteers for social service from the Qingdao Zhanqiao Bookstore launched a scientific information outreach program at the Juyuan Primary School Wednesday. Through video clips, knowledge contests, short dramas and amusing games, the volunteers attempted to help the pupils better understand the necessity of garbage classification as well as the importance of environmental and ecological protection. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)
A volunteer hosts a knowledge contest on garbage classification for pupils at the Juyuan Primary School in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province, Dec. 18, 2019.
A teacher (C) demonstrates a movement in yangge dance, an officially recognized national intangible cultural heritage, for her pupils at the Xiaoyanying Primary School in Luanzhou City of north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 19, 2019. The Xiaoyanying Primary School introduced yangge dance to its campus several years ago and has invited local performers to teach regular classes on this art widely popular in eastern parts of Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mu Yu)
A teacher (R) prepares stage make-up for a pupil attending dressed rehearsal of yangge dance, an officially recognized national intangible cultural heritage, at the Xiaoyanying Primary School in Luanzhou City of north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 19, 2019.(Xinhua/Mu Yu)
Pupils of the Xiaoyanying Primary School rehearse yangge dance, an officially recognized national intangible cultural heritage, in Luanzhou City of north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 19, 2019.(Xinhua/Mu Yu)
A Macao start-up businesswoman (2nd L) enters the Chinese mainland from the old Hengqin port in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 11, 2019. After three years of construction, the new Hengqin port is ready for visitors to travel between Zhuhai and the Lotus port in Macao. (Xinhua/Lu Ye)
Customs officer Wu Hao (R) checks the debugging of a smart sorting system at the new Hengqin port in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 10, 2019. (Xinhua/Lu Ye)
Visitors check out an intelligent robot developed by Baidu Inc at the World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, in October. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]
A number of participants in the ox-shaped air model run in the mountains, enjoying the pleasure of a 'fun mountaineering game' in Pingjiang county, Yueyang city, Central China's Hunan province, on Dec 14, 2019. [Photo/chinanews.com]
Maintenance workers remove dust from a statue of Guangong, a famous general in the Three Kingdoms dynasty (220-280), in Xuchang, Henan province, on Dec 16. The 15-meter-high statue is the largest of Guangong in Asia. The maintenance work will last about 15 days and will involve removing dust, filling in cracks and painting it with copper powder. [Photo/for China Daily]
Photo taken on Dec 17, 2019, shows a view at the Maoxiang canyon in Zhidan county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. The canyon consists of nine segments with a total length of 12 kilometers. [Photo/Xinhua]
Aerial photo taken on Dec 15, 2019 shows constructors preparing for the opening of the Ice-Snow World in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo by Xie Jianfei/Xinhua]
A worker makes a work of glass at the workshop of a company in Hejian city, North China's Hebei province, Dec 18, 2019. The glassmaking industry in Hejian city started from the 1970s. To revive this industry, the local authority has guided companies to focus on product research and upgrading. Now, there are more than 240 glassmaking companies and over 50,000 staff members involved in the industry in Hejian. The annual output of works of glass reached a value of 2 billion yuan (about $285.6 million) and the works have been exported to over 50 countries and regions. [Photo/Xinhua]
Liang Yuhua makes qipao for customers in Tianjin on Dec 18, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
A woman makes qipao, China's intangible culture heritage, glitter in modern life with exquisite craftsmanship in Tianjin.
Liang Yuhua, born in 1951, started to learn the art of making qipao at the age of 20 and is now skilled in every step of handmade qipao, from selection of materials, taking measurements to clothes cutting.
Liang Yuhua makes decoration for a qipao in Tianjin on Dec 18, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
It takes about 200 steps to make a Jin-style qipao and each step needs its own special attention. Only by sticking to traditional techniques can the intangible cultural heritage truly live in the contemporary era, Liang said.
Liang Yuhua (right) guides apprentice Li Cuicui (left) in Tianjin on Dec 17, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
As a deputy manager of a garment workshop, Liang wants to make traditional cultural heritage qipao carry more Chinese characteristics, be more practical and more easily accepted by ordinary people.
A new satellite, jointly developed by China and Brazil, was sent into space on Friday, pushing forward the aerospace cooperation between the two countries, according to the China National Space Administration.
The China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite-4A was launched on a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11:22 a.m. Friday Beijing Time from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.
The satellite is the sixth satellite under the earth resource satellite cooperation program between the two countries. It will obtain global optical remote-sensing data and support the Brazilian government's monitoring of the Amazon rainforest and the country's environmental changes. (Photo: China News Service/He Meng)
Photo taken on Dec. 19, 2019 shows a wallet during an exhibition about Jin embroidery, a traditional craft in Shanxi Province, at the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
A visitor takes a photo in an exhibition about Jin embroidery, a traditional craft in Shanxi Province, at the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
Photo taken on Dec. 19, 2019 shows a hat during an exhibition about Jin embroidery, a traditional craft in Shanxi Province, at the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
A visitor takes a photo in an exhibition about Jin embroidery, a traditional craft in Shanxi Province, at the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province, Dec. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
Photo taken on Dec. 19, 2019 shows a table skirt during an exhibition about Jin embroidery, a traditional craft in Shanxi Province, at the Taiyuan Art Museum in Taiyuan, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
