2,500 giant panda sculptures are displayed for “PANDA GO! FEST HK”, in Hong Kong, China on December 8, 2024. (Photo by Lam Yik/Reuters)





High speed trains are seen outside a maintenance workshop in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Candidates practice basic skills at a dance training center in Handan, China, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk along on an overpass in the central business district of Hong Kong on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)





A worker makes Christmas decorations at a workshop in Huaibei, in China's eastern Anhui Province on December 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Sculptors carve a snow sculpture with the character Monkey King from the Chinese game “Black Myth: Wukong” as the model sample at the 37th Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo on December 11, 2024 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A retired old man jumped into the frozen lake in the park for winter swimming on December 12, 2024 in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China. The benefits of winter swimming to the body are believed to be, the enhancement of the bodies immune system and benefit to the cardiovascular function aswell as too the mental health and stress levels. (Photo by Weitao Tian/Getty Images)





A herdsman tame horses on snow-covered grassland in East Ujimqin Banner of Xilingol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, December 12, 2024. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





An aerial view shows cars and pickups on the dock waiting to be loaded onto ships for export at the port in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 12, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A 11-month-old bear cub, Junjun, plays in his enclosure at Shanghai Zoo, in Shanghai, China on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Casey Hall/Reuters)





The 11th national memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre victims is held at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, December 13, 2024. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Giant pandas have a break from their usual diet of bamboo, up to 38kg a day each, with some more digestible snacks at Chongqing Zoo in central China in the second decade of December 2024. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)





This photo taken on December 15, 2024 shows a worker checking on a production line of high-end threads in a factory in Zaozhuang, eastern China's Shandong province. China's retail sales growth weakened last month, official data showed on December 16, missing forecasts as demand remains muted in the world's number two economy. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Aerial view of ice sculptures illuminated by colorful lights at Changchun Ice and Snow New World on December 16, 2024 in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. The 6th Changchun Ice and Snow New World will open to visitors on December 17. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Kindergarten children show off handmade floral headdress made of ginkgo leaves on December 17, 2024 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. The floral headdress is also known as Zanhua or Zanhuawei. Zanhuawei is a traditional Chinese hairstyle favored among ladies from Xunpu Village of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province. (Photo by Tan Yunfeng/VCG via Getty Images)





This aerial picture shows workers harvesting ice from the frozen Songhua river in preparation for the annual Harbin Ice and Snow World festival in Harbin, China's northeast Heilongjiang province on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





The giant snowman wearing a red scarf stands at Harbin Music Park on December 17, 2024 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. An old friend to Harbin, a giant snowman kept its annual rendezvous with local residents to make its first appearance of this winter at a park in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Visitors pose for pictures with a snowman sculpture ahead of the annual Harbin Ice and Snow World festival in Harbin, China's northeast Heilongjiang province on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





A winter swimming enthusiast braves cold to swim in partly frozen Hunhe River on December 18, 2024 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. (Photo by Wang Ruizhong/VCG via Getty Images)





A woman looks at the disco and Christmas balls illuminated with lights hanging on a decoration display for the upcoming Christmas Festival at a popular outdoor shopping mall in Beijing, Wednesday, December 18, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)