Zhao Qiushi presents a microscopic carving work on a tea cup. (Photo/chinadaily.com.cn)
In the past 10 years, Zhao Qiushi has created more than 2,000 pieces of microscopic carvings in Changchun, capital city of Northeast China's Jilin Province.
Zhao, 46, who runs an artwork studio in Changchun, created his first piece upon a customer's request in 2009.
The artist, who learned the traditional Chinese artistic techniques in university, provided the customer within five days a 30-millimeter stone ornament carved with the Heart Sutra, a popular Buddhist scripture which includes 260 Chinese characters.
China's self-designed "artificial sun," a device to harness the energy of fusion, has made an important advance by achieving a temperature of 100 million C in plasma and a heating power of 10 megawatts, media reported, noting the progress could pave the way for developing clean energy through nuclear fusion. The Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, announced on its website on Monday that various data points achieved in the experiments are close to meeting physics' demand for future steady-state fusion reactor operation. Independently designed and developed by China, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is the world's first fully superconducting tokamak with non-circular cross-section and the country's fourth generation experimental nuclear fusion device(Photo/VCG)
Fuxing bullet trains between Beijing and Changsha, the capital city of Central China's Hunan province, join the battle to deliver for Singles' Day, an annual e-commerce shopping spree in China that falls on last Sunday. It is the first time that two Fuxing bullet trains between Beijing and Changsha deliver goods bought on Singles' Day from Nov 11 to 20, each with a delivery capacity of about 50,000 tonnes. One carriage of each train will carry goods, mainly documents, garments, food, electronic devices, and others. Delivery time will be cut down to about five hours, faster than road transportation which usually takes 20 to 24 hours. (Photo/VCG)
A group of martial arts students perform during "The Legend of Shaolin 2018" show in Houston, Texas, the United States, on Nov. 11, 2018. Hundreds in the Chinese and American audience marveled at the performance of Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu on Sunday in Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. (Xinhua/Yi-Chin Lee)
Visitors pose for photos in front of the National Museum of China, where a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up is held, in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
Visitors view the sand table of Shanghai's Lujiazui area during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Xin)
People visit the exhibition hall of the Xinhua News Agency during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Visitors view military exhibits at a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up held at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2018. The exhibition opened here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
Visitors view historical document pictures at a multimedia interactive zone during a major exhibition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up held at the National Museum of China in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 14, 2018. The exhibition opened here on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Meng Dingbo)
The Chinese team participates in the second USIP World Police Service Pistol Shooting Championship takes place at the Guangdong provincial police training center in Foshan, Guangdong province on November 14, 2018. A total of 256 police from nearly 70 countries and regions across the world registered for the contest. (Photo: China News Service/ Chen Jimin)
An ice sculpture carver from Harbin in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province works on a Kongfu Panda ice sculpture at Qujiang Polar Ocean Park in Xi'an, Nov 12, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
This glittering ice tunnel is at Qujiang Polar Ocean Park in Xi'an, Nov 12, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
Wei Jinhua, who comes from East China's Jiangxi province, invested 50 million yuan ($7.18 million) to reinvent an underground garage into the largest indoor ice and snow world in northwestern China.
"Since the ice-making plant in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, does not have large ice chunks, ice used here - more than 2,000 metric tons - is transported from Wuhan and other places," Wei said.
Polar bears are exhibited in the indoor ice and snow world at Xi'an's Qujiang Polar Ocean Park, Nov 12, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
The ice and snow world in the Qujiang Polar Ocean Park in Xi'an consists of three parts - ice sculpture exhibits, a parent-child interactive experience and a winter sports show.
More than 500 pieces of ice and snow works were carefully carved by over 40 ice sculptors, who worked eight or nine hours a day in a large ice house at minus 8 degrees Celsius, with a wage of 1,500 yuan per day.
An ice sculptor carefully crafts an ice lotus base for this sculpture at Qujiang Polar Ocean Park, Nov 12, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
A potter shows students the making of ceramic ware during a pottery lesson in Nonglin Road Primary School in Hanshan District of Handan, north China's Hebei Province, Nov. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)
Students make ceramic ware during a pottery lesson in Nonglin Road Primary School in Hanshan District of Handan, north China's Hebei Province, Nov. 14, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)
Teaching staff Li Juan (2nd R) instructs deaf students on making a handicraft work at Yingping Special Education School in Xuan'en County of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 14, 2018. The 60 deaf students in Yingping Special Education School are not only provided with sign language and academic lessons, but also craft trainings which are expected to boost career prospects. (Xinhua/Song Wen)
A deaf student sews a handbag using beads during a crafting lesson at Yingping Special Education School in Xuan'en County of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 14, 2018.(Xinhua/Song Wen)