This photo taken from Heilongtan Park shows sunlight shining on the Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 9, 2024. (Xinhua/Meng Tao)
A keeper plays with an elephant calf at the Xishuangbanna Asian Elephant Breeding and Rescue Center in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 8, 2024. Following over three months of treatment and rehabilitation, an injured male wild elephant calf is showing strong signs of recovery after being rescued by an elephant breeding and rescue center in Yunnan Province. The elephant has improved to the point where it is able to walk normally again. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 9, 2024 shows workers collecting ice from the Songhua River in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. As the ice collection season starts, ice cubes are being cut out and elevated from the frozen Songhua River for scenery building at tourist attractions across the city. The most prominent one of them is the Harbin Ice-Snow World, a renowned seasonal theme park in the city that enjoys great popularity every winter. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)
An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 9, 2024 shows the "NGUYA FLNG," a floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) facility, being tugged through the Sutong (Suzhou-Nantong) Bridge across the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province. The "NGUYA FLNG," the first large-scale FLNG facility made in the country, was transferred from Nantong of Jiangsu to Zhoushan of Zhejiang (both in east China), where it will be further assembled, integrated and modulated.
An FLNG facility is capable of directly liquifying and storing natural gas harvested from an offshore site. (Photo by Xu Congjun/Xinhua)
Two black storks are seen at a wetland in Pingshan County of Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 9, 2024. (Photo by Liang Zidong/Xinhua)
People in Santa Claus costumes are pictured during the annual Santa Run in Budapest, Hungary on Dec. 8, 2024. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)
Armed militants gather outside the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 8, 2024. The Iranian embassy in Damascus was stormed by armed militants. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua)
Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton performs a burn out after the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Dec. 8, 2024. (Photo by Song Haiyuan/Xinhua)
