• WINTER FESTIVAL
  A winter Naadam as well as a fire sacrifice festival kicks off on December 23, 2014, in Old Barag Banner (county) of Hulunbuir, a city of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (LI MINGFANG)
• GLORIOUS TASK
  China’s first infantry battalion to South Sudan is set for departure and a rally is held on December 22, 2014, in Laiyang, Shandong Province, marking the country’s first infantry to participate in a UN peacekeeping mission (QIU CHENGLIANG)
• TESTING THE WATERS
  A 38,500-ton bulk cargo ship developed by Shanhaiguan Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. sails smoothly in the water in Qinhuangdao, north China’s Hebei Province (WANG HANZHI)
• SOLAR POWER DRIVE
  Workers test distributed solar panels in Shandong Hongli Anywhere Environmental Science & Technology Group. So far, there have been more than 200 distributed solar power generation projects in east China’s Shandong Province, with a capacity of 135,000 kilowatts (SUN SHUBAO)