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China Daily Europe | Updated: 2015-12-11 08:18

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Looking nice to gather ice: People wearing traditional clothes celebrate the ice-collection ceremony for this year's ice sculptures in the Songhua River, Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Dec 2. Wang Tienan / For China Daily

Produced in court: Art students at Beihua University in Jilin city, Jilin province, put final touches on a snow portrait of US basketball star Kobe Bryant on Dec 6 to mark his final NBA season. It took eight sophomores five hours to finish the work. Wang Qiang / For China Daily

Snow man: The first flurry of the season creates an illusionary effect, attracting visitors to West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, on Dec 5. Lin Yunlong / For China Daily

Memorial expands: A new section of the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders opened on Dec 7. More than 1,100 pictures and 6,000 relics are displayed in the 30,000-square-meter section. From Dec 13, 1937 to January 1938, up to 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers were killed by Japanese troops. Cui Xiao / For China Daily

Glass act: A visitor runs on a 303-meter-high glass ledge on top of the landmark Diwang International Fortune Center in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Dec 6, one day after the building was opened. It is the fourth such skyscraper in China to transparently challenge visitors' courage. Li Hanchi / For China Daily

(China Daily European Weekly 12/11/2015 page5)

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