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A giant panda cub makes the first public appearance at the Malaysian national zoo near Kuala Lumpur May 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)

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Team China celebrate after winning the final against team Japan at the Thomas Cup badminton tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 27, 2018. Team China won the final 3-1 and claimed the title of the event. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)

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Sponsored students take part in a benevolent activity to greet the International Children's Day in Liuzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Hanchi)

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A child does parent-child sports with her parents to greet the International Children's Day in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, May 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Ge Chuanhong)

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Children perform in a performance to greet the International Children's Day at a kindergarten in Jinghe County of Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 26, 2018. (Xinhua/Kurbanjan Mamuti)

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Children take part in a Baby Race to greet the International Children's Day in Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, May 27, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Dong)

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Children take part in an amusing sports meeting to greet the International Children's Day at the Jimo District of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, May 27, 2018. (Xinhua/Liang Xiaopeng)

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Taikonaut Liu Wang exits from a re-entry capsule during a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, May 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

JIUQUAN - Fifteen Chinese astronauts have just completed desert survival training deep in the Badain Jaran Desert near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Organized by the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), the program was designed to prepare astronauts with the capacity to survive in the wilderness in the event their re-entry capsule lands off target.

Before venturing into space, astronauts have to survive in various hostile environments as a part of their technical training. Wilderness survival training is an important part of astronaut training in space agencies worldwide, leaving space mission candidates stranded at sea, in deserts, in jungles or on glaciers.

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Taikonauts Nie Haisheng (C), Zhang Xiaoguang (L) and Liu Wang participate in a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, May 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Taikonauts Nie Haisheng (L) and Liu Wang exit from a re-entry capsule during a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, May 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Taikonauts Wang Yaping (R) and Chen Dong participate in a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, May 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Taikonauts Nie Haisheng (3rd R), Liu Wang (1st L) and Zhang Xiaoguang (1st R) participate in a wilderness survival training in the Badain Jaran Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, May 17, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Long Mao in jumpsuit poses for a photo. [Photo/VCG]

Long Mao, who experienced skydiving for the first time when traveling in Dubai six years ago, fell in love with the sport and decided to quit his job as a gaming producer and work full-time on skydiving in 2013.

His work now includes skydiving teaching, the sales and maintenance of professional skydiving equipment and high-altitude photography.

Last May, a group of seven skydivers led by Long Mao took the challenge of skydiving at a height of 10-kilometer in the United States and broke the highest skydiving record by Chinese groups.

Long Mao, who established an organization called Skydive China, now offers training for people interested in the sport. They will get the pre-training at tunnel base and then skydive in the air.

Long Mao also opened an online shop on Taobao, China's biggest online shopping platform, to sell professional skydiving equipment, including jumpsuits. The customized jumpsuits sold by his shop are so popular among Chinese and foreign skydivers that Long Mao even gets orders from Switzerland and South Africa.

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Picture taken on May 26, 2018 shows the water level of the Songhua River has dropped to its lowest point since 2008 in Harbin City, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Many boats are stranded and the river bank has also dried up. (Photo/VCG)

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Villagers are seen crossing the river with a zipline in a village in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Villagers have to use a zipline to cross the raging river. (Photo/VCG)

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A 40-year old Lisu woman and her daughter leave a village with a zipline across the Nujiang River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Villagers have to use a zipline to cross the raging river. (Photo/VCG)

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A high-speed train makes a pilot run from Jiangmen City to Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province, May 28, 2018. Simulation exercises including malfunction and emergency case handling during the pilot run will provide scientific evidence for further operation. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Sheng)

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Members of Beijing's underwater police squad take part in a routine underwater training exercise. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Psychological pressure faced by squad members makes difficult job even harder

The 20 divers of Beijing's underwater police squad patrol the dark, cold waters of the capital, conducting security checks and searching for submerged evidence, including weapons, bodies and body parts.

The squad, originally trained by the Chinese Navy, was the first of its kind in China when it was launched in 1984 as a five-man unit to conduct security inspections for the National Day military parade. It is now a detachment of the Beijing Public Security Bureau's counterterrorism and SWAT department.

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