Newlyweds visit the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Heilongjiang province on Jan 6, 2024. The theme park held a group wedding ceremony for 35 couples from 15 provincial regions in China, marking the 40th edition of the event. [Photo/Xinhua]
Teachers and students at a primary school in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, take a group photo next to packages of clothes being donated to children in Yajiang, Sichuan province, on Jan 8, 2024. More than 700 packages of donated clothing were sent from the First Affiliated Primary School of Hangzhou Normal University to assistance areas in China's western regions. LI ZHONG/FOR CHINA DAILY
A Long March 2C carrier rocket carrying a new astronomical satellite named Einstein Probe (EP) blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province, Jan 9, 2024. China sent the satellite, which uses a new X-ray detection technology inspired by the lobster eye, into space on Tuesday to observe mysterious transient phenomena in the universe comparable to the flickering of fireworks, with the aim of unveiling the violent and little-known aspects of the cosmos. The rocket was launched at 3:03 pm (Beijing Time) from here. [Photo/Xinhua]
Riders participate in a camel race in the Sonid Right Banner of Xiliin Gol League in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Jan 9, 2024 during a cultural festival, which also featured a camel beauty contest. [Photo/Xinhua]
Chinese icebreaker Xuelong 2 navigates on the Amundsen Sea on Jan 6, 2024 for the deployment of a mooring buoy. The 40th Chinese Antarctic expedition team deployed an ecological subsurface mooring buoy, the country's first in the polar region, at a depth of 3,000 meters, to collect long-term series data on Antarctic krill and relevant ecological environmental parameters. This buoy is slated to remain operational for one year. [Photo/Xinhua]