A staff member is on night watch at a tent temporarily set up at the entrance of a community in Chaoyang district, Beijing, on Jan 9, 2021. The tent is decorated with balloons, soft toys and a vase of flowers. As COVID-19 lingers on, there are people on duty in communities to help with virus prevention and control, such as checking the body temperature of visitors and registering necessary information. [Photo by Wu Xiaohui/China Daily]
Special policewomen participate in adaptive training on a plateau in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Golog, Northwest China's Qinghai province, on Jan 9, 2021. Jan 10 marked the first Chinese People's Police Day. A team of special policewomen from the public security bureau of Golog kept on training in chilly winter on a plateau around 4,000 meters above sea level. [Photo/Xinhua]
Scooter drivers brave the chilly weather in Haikou, Hainan province, on Jan 12, 2021. A cold front brought temperatures in the capital of the tropical island down to about 5 C, the lowest since 2016. [Photo by Luo Yunfei/China News Service]
Children play with bubbles during a water-themed science event at an activity center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Jan 10, 2021. The children learned about the scientific qualities of water while having fun. [Photo by Ding Genhou/for China Daily]
People ride on sleds at a natural ice rink formed by a frozen lake in Beijing's Shichahai area, on Jan 9, 2021. It was the first day of sled operations on the rink, with a range of modified bicycles and vehicles available for pleasure seekers. [Photo/Xinhua]
A prototype train using high-temperature superconducting maglev technology is rolled out on Jan 13, 2021, in Chengdu, Sichuan province. [Photo by Yi Fei/for China Daily]
Workers haul in a massive fishing net as they mark the first harvest of fish this year at Qiandao Lake in Chun'an county, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Jan 12, 2021. More than 30 metric tons of fish were caught on the day. [Photo by Wang Jiancai/for China Daily]
A large picture is seen in the snow on a basketball court at Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, Liaoning province, on Jan 12, 2021. The big characters read "Go forward, China". The college's faculty members and students made the image with the help of drones on Saturday to uplift people's spirits in the fight against COVID-19. [Photo by Lyu Wenzheng/for China Daily]
Zoo workers hold two South China tiger cubs as they celebrate the cats' 100th day of life at Wangcheng Park Zoo in Luoyang, Henan province, on Jan 12, 2021. The two male cubs increased their weight from 1 kilogram at birth to currently around 7 kg under the care of animal workers. The zoo hosts 50 South China tigers, the nation's largest group of the cats. The South China tiger is one of the world's most endangered species. [Photo by Zhang Guanghui/for China Daily]
Aerial photo taken on Jan 8, 2021, shows the construction site where girders are being erected for the Meizhou Bay cross-sea bridge of the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway in Southeast China's Fujian province. The work here continues amid low temperatures and icy winds brought by a cold wave. [Photo/Xinhua]
