Passengers at Beijing North Railway Station get on the high-speed train G8811 heading to Taizicheng Railway Station at Chongli Olympic Village, on Dec 30, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
Yang Yang (right), a Winter Olympic champion and chairwoman of the Athletes' Commission of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, is among passengers on the high-speed train G8811, on Dec 30, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
BEIJING - The high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the co-host city of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, went into operation Monday, the China State Railway Group Co Ltd said.
With 5G signals, wireless charging and intelligent lighting, the smart train G8811 departed from Beijing North Railway Station at around 8:30 am to Zhangjiakou in North China's Hebei province.
Train G2505 running on the newly opened Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway stops at the Zhangjiakou Station in North China's Hebei province, on Dec 30, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
The railway is 174 km long, with 10 stations along the line. Several underground tunnels were built on the route so trains can avoid traversing through scenic spots.
A passenger poses for picture to mark the start of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway on Dec 30, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
With a maximum design speed of 350 kph, it will reduce the travel time between Beijing and Zhangjiakou from over three hours to 47 minutes, facilitating inter-city traffic and crucial for the co-host of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Chongli railway, a branch line of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, also went into service Monday. It is 53 km long, with a maximum design speed of 250 kph.
The price for the first catch breaks the record at auction at 2.96 million yuan at the opening ceremony of the 18th Chagan Lake Fishing and Hunting Cultural Tourism Festival in Songyuan in Northeast China's Jilin province on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
The buyer, Fujian Panpan Foods Co, made the purchase as a donation to the well-being of the lake, including protecting water quality and stocking it with fry.
In spite of the extremely cold weather, the ceremony attracted lots of visitors to enjoy an impressive ritual to recognize the age-old form of winter fishing on the frozen lake that dates back to the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234).
Fishermen pull a net full of fish out of Chagan Lake in Songyuan in Northeast China's Jilin province on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A tourist poses for a picture with the giant fish pulled out of the Chagan Lake in Songyuan in Northeast China's Jilin province on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Fishermen pull a net full of fish out of Chagan Lake in Songyuan in Northeast China's Jilin province on Saturday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Fu Jia has lunch with her students in Central China's Hunan province. [Photo by Yan Guanghui/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Fu Jia is a primary school headmaster and also like a mother to about 70 children.
Fu, 24, is the headmaster of a primary school in a mountainous area of Central China's Hunan province. After graduating from university in 2016, she returned home to be a teacher to about 70 students at the Waergang Wanquan Primary School in Niuchehe town, Changde city.
Fu Jia plays basketball with her students in Central China's Hunan province. [Photo by Yan Guanghui/for chinadaily.com.cn]
At school, Fu teaches classes and takes care of students' daily needs, because most of their parents are away working in cities. More than 30 children live at the school, due to inconvenient accessibility to transportation.
Fu Jia tends to a student with an injury in Central China's Hunan province. [Photo by Yan Guanghui/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Fu and her colleagues used to do all the daily housekeeping chores, such as cooking, growing vegetables, feeding the poultry they raise and washing clothes. But now that work is shared by Communist Party volunteers who frequently come to the school to help them.
A herdsman performs driving livestock at the second Sawur cultural tourism festival on animal husbandry in winter in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua)
A herdswoman performs driving camels at the second Sawur cultural tourism festival on animal husbandry in winter in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Sadat)
Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2019 shows the performance of herdsmen's transfer in winter at the second Sawur cultural tourism festival on animal husbandry in winter in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Sadat)
Local herdsmen perform buzkashi at the second Sawur cultural tourism festival on animal husbandry in winter in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Sadat)
A residents performs equestrian skill at the second Sawur cultural tourism festival on animal husbandry in winter in Jeminay County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 29, 2019. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua)
A 420-meter-long ice slide debuts in the largest ice and snow park in the world -- Changchun Ice and Snow World, located in Changchun, capital of northeastern Jilin Province on Dec. 28, 2019. (...all Photos: China News Service/Zhang Yao)
A delivered Tesla Model 3 vehicle leaves the factory workshop in Shanghai, east China, Dec. 30, 2019. The first batch of vehicles produced by Tesla's overseas plant in Shanghai was delivered to customers Monday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
Photos taken on Dec. 30, 2019 shows a delivery ceremony of Tesla's Model 3 vehicles in Shanghai, east China. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of vehicles produced by Tesla's overseas plant in Shanghai was delivered to customers Monday.
U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc. broke ground on Jan. 7 in Shanghai on its first overseas factory. Located in Lingang Area, a high-end manufacturing park in the southeast harbor of Shanghai, the plant is designed with an annual capacity of 500,000 electric cars.
Tesla signed the agreement with the Shanghai municipal government in July 2018 to build the factory. In October 2018, the company was approved to use an 864,885-square-meter tract of land in Lingang for its Shanghai plant.
Workers arrange public rental bikes in order outside a metro station at the Tongzhou district, Beijing, May 23, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]
People walk past a bike rental site near Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) Park, on June 17, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]
China was once considered the "Kingdom of the Bicycle," with bikes dominating city streets across the country. But over the past four decades, China's dramatic increase in economic prosperity and urbanization has seen many people shift to motor vehicles as their primary means of transportation.
A worker places tires on bicycle wheels at the Golden Wheel Group factory in Tianjin, July 10, 2019. [Photo by Zou Hong/chinadaily.com.cn]
In the recent five years, with the new digital technology, thriving sharing economy and rising environmental awareness, shared bikes and public bikes have gathered strong momentum, marking the return of the "Bicycle Kingdom".
An interpreter shares her experience with her colleagues. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/ chinadaily.com.cn]
The exhibition showed the country's development since the founding in 1949 in such areas as science, education, healthcare, defense and diplomacy. It concluded on Tuesday.
Women on an ice dragon boat team compete in Jinzhou, Northeast China’s Liaoning province on Dec 29, 2019. [Photo by Zu Weijie and Li Xi/for chinadaily.com.cn]
An ice dragon boat team competes across the frozen surface in Jinzhou, Northeast China's Liaoning province on Dec 29, 2019. [Photo by Zu Weijie and Li Xi/for chinadaily.com.cn]
The National Ice Dragon Boat Race kicked off at Donghu Park in Jinzhou city of Northeast China's Liaoning province on Sunday.
Determination is seen on the faces of these rowers on an ice dragon boat team competing in Jinzhou, Northeast China's Liaoning province on Dec 29, 2019. [Photo by Zu Weijie and Li Xi/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Eighteen teams from provinces like Jilin, Hebei and Henan participated in the contest.
A dragon boat adapted to the ice weights 155 kilogram and is equipped with special ice skates and a tail rudder and brakes. One ice dragon boat team requires 10 paddlers, a drummer and a helmsman.
A drummer sounds the beat for this ice dragon boat team competing in Jinzhou, Northeast China's Liaoning province on Dec 29, 2019. [Photo by Zu Weijie and Li Xi/for chinadaily.com.cn]
New Year prints from the collections of the Shanghai History Museum and the Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum will be featured at an exhibition on Chinese New Year prints at the Shanghai History Museum. [Photo provided to China Daily]
An exhibition of Chinese New Year prints kicked off on Dec 27 and will run till Mar 1 at the Shanghai History Museum in celebration of the New Year and the upcoming Spring Festival.
Posting pictures that bear auspicious meanings in the home has been a custom for more than 1,000 years in China, says Hu Jiang, head of the Shanghai History Museum.
