China's second domestically built large cruise ship,漳州新闻网陈慧慧 Adora Flora City, stands ready for undocking at a shipyard in Shanghai on Feb 27, 2026. YIN LIQIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE
With intense focus, contestants bring the Chinese character chun, or spring, and poetic verses about the season to life with their brushes during the finals of a calligraphy contest at Dalian Library in Liaoning province on Feb 27, 2026. LYU WENZHENG/FOR CHINA DAILY
Workers pave straw checkerboard barriers on sand in Ulan Buh Desert in Alshaa League, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Feb 28, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
People perform during a Shehuo gala in Yinchuan, Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, March 1, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
Students and teachers gather at the Qinghai Atomic City Memorial Hall in Haiyan county on March 1, 2026. Nearly 500 participants from across the province visited the site for a themed activity marking the first lesson of the 2026 spring semester. ZHANG LONG/XINHUA
Students, along with a humanoid robot, offer Chinese New Year greetings at the opening ceremony for new semester at a primary school in Nanning, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, March 2, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
Volunteers of Young Pioneers of China participate in a charity market at Lei Feng Square in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on March 2, 2026. LIN YUNLONG/FOR CHINA DAILY
Thousands of locals gather at a park to celebrate the opening of the 2026 Mangshi Munao Zongge Festival in Dehong, Yunnan province, on March 3, 2026. This grand Jingpo ethnic tradition has been a national intangible cultural heritage since 2006. CAO CE/FOR CHINA DAILY
Residents and dragon dance performers walk across Taiping Bridge in Chuzhou's Quanjiao county, Anhui province, on March 4, 2026. LIU YUCHAI/FOR CHINA DAILY
Tourists visit the Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) Park in Beijing, March 5, 2026. [Photo/Xinhua]
