A couple register for marriage at a civil service center in Fuzhou, Fujian province, on March 14, 2021. The number signifying the date March 14, 2021 - 2021314 - sounds like "love you for a lifetime" in Chinese, prompting some people to think it was an auspicious day to get married. Many civil service bureaus around the country worked an extra day to cater to them. [Photo by Zhang Bin/China News Service]
A security guard chases a wild tufted deer that accidentally ran into the premises of a medical company in Mianyang, Sichuan province, on March 17, 2021. The animal, a state-protected species, was caught and sent to a local zoo. [Photo by Chen Dongdong/For China Daily]
A child gets a haircut at a barbershop in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province on March 14, 2021, as is traditionally done during Longtaitou Festival, or Dragon Head-Raising Day. The festival comes on the second day of the lunar calendar's second month. It is about honoring the Chinese dragon and praying for good weather in spring, the key time for plowing the fields. [Photo by Geng Yuehe/For China Daily]
Police officers pose for a photograph with an elderly woman surnamed Zhang (center) after rescuing her during a sandstorm and blizzard in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on March 15, 2021. Zhang, 71, was stranded in her house due to the extreme weather and unable to fetch wood for heating as the temperature fell to -15 C. Responding to her distress call, police drove to her house and shoveled away snow that blocked her door. [Photo by Xue Shangfeng/For China Daily]
Workers carry an "injured" person to a helicopter on a ski run at the National Alpine Skiing Center in Beijing's Yanqing district on March 17, 2021. The exercise was part of preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, with the site set to host Alpine skiing events during the Games. [Photo by Cao Boyuan/For China Daily]
Students watch as a traditional Chinese medicine physician performs cupping therapy at a hospital in Hefei, Anhui province, on March 16, 2021, one day before Chinese Medicine Day, which commemorates China's traditional methods of protecting people's health. [Photo by Zhao Ming/For China Daily]
Tea-pickers and farmers holler on a tea hill to pray for a good annual harvest at the Tuanbazhen tea plantation in Dazhu county, Dazhou, Sichuan province, on March 14, 2021. Growing white tea has been the county's major industry for a decade. [Photo by Zhang Lang/China News Service]
Doctors Yu Xiang (left) and Fei Shizhi, who fought COVID-19 in Wuhan, Hubei province, last year, revisit the city's Leishenshan Hospital, where they worked, with their children on March 14, 2021. The hospital closed on April 15 and reopened for the first time on March 14 to allow members of the public to see where the battle against the disease was waged. [Photo by Miao Jian/For China Daily]
People tour a job fair offering more than 11,000 positions in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on March 16, 2021. The event mainly focused on science and innovation positions in the information technology, health and new materials sectors. [Photo by Dong Xuming/For China Daily]
Fendouzhe (Striver), China's domestically developed deep-sea manned submersible, is delivered to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering in Sanya, Hainan province, by its developer, the China Ship Scientific Research Center, on March 16, 2021. The submersible set a national record by diving to a depth of 10,909 meters in the Mariana Trench in a test in November. It carried three experts who conducted scientific research for about six hours at the bottom of the trench. [Photo by Sha Xiaofeng/For China Daily]
