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| Playing it cool: Children have an ice and snow sports meeting in Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, on Jan 18 to enjoy the winter vacation. Li Jundong / Xinhua |
| Panda treat: Le Le, a panda at Hong Kong Ocean Park, enjoys a New Year's feast on Jan 16. Workers at the park used sweet potatoes, carrots and bamboo shoots to prepare the dish. Wang Xi / Xinhua |
| Verse-atile: A robot featuring cloud technology writes Spring Festival couplets at Alibaba Group's Xixi park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Jan 16. Employees are able to talk to the robot and ask it to design customized couplets for the festival, which falls on Jan 28. Mao Mao / For China Daily |
| On their toes: Candidates warm up before their admission test at Yunnan Arts University in Kunming on Jan 16. More than 36,000 candidates are applying to the university this year. The country sees a rush of applications for performing arts schools every year, with hundreds of thousands of students taking exams and demonstrating their performance skills. Liu Ranyang / For China Daily |
| Packed to the gills: Fish are piled in a cone and packed with snow, both to preserve and present them, during winter fishing events on Zimeng Lake in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Jan 14. The winter fishing festival on Zimeng Lake commenced with an assortment of activities for tourists and local residents, including a sacrificial ceremony, the auction of the heaviest fish, horse sledge rides and snowmobiling. Li Fu / Xinhua |
(China Daily European Weekly 01/20/2017 page5)
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