1.World snooker number one Judd Trump has become a Hong Kong resident through the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, according to the Immigration Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Tuesday. Trump arrived in Hong Kong on Monday to collect his Hong Kong identity card.

2.China unveiled its largest and most advanced amphibious assault ship on Friday in Shanghai, naming it after the southwestern province of Sichuan. With a hull code of 51, the CNS Sichuan is the first in the Type 076 class.

The ship is capable of displacing more than 40,000 metric tons of water and carrying fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and amphibious landing craft. It has a two-island superstructure configuration, a full-length flight deck and an electromagnetic launch system, or electromagnetic catapult, which will be used to launch fixed-wing aircraft.

A launch and naming ceremony is held for PLA Navy’s Type 076 amphibious assault shipat Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, Dec. 27, 2024. (Photo/CCTV)

3.Phase I of Huaneng Nagu Photovoltaic Power Station, the world’s highest-altitude solar power project, started operation in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Tuesday. Upon completion, it will generate an annual average of 158 million kilowatt hours of electricity, sufficient to meet the yearly power needs of approximately 52,000 households.

The Huaneng Nagu Photovoltaic Power Station project in Deqin County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province. (Courtesy of the Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc.)

4.Tansuo 3, or Exploration 3, China’s self-developed deep-sea multifunctional research vessel was commissioned at Nansha Port in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, on Thursday. Equipped with world-class scientific equipment, the ship has a bidirectional icebreaking capability that enables it to operate in polar regions in the summer.

Tansuo 3, or Exploration 3, China’s self-developed deep-sea multifunctional research vessel is commissioned at Nansha Port in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Dec. 26, 2024. (Photo provided to China News Service)

5.Flight number PN6425 operated by West Air departed from Lhasa Gonggar International Airport in Xizang Autonomous Region on Wednesday for Singapore’s Changi Airport, marking the opening of a new China-Singapore route. 

Lhasa launches second flight to Singapore on Dec. 25, 2024. (Photo: China News Service / Xie Mu)

6.The 37th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Expo began its trial operation on Monday.The expo covers an area of 1.5 million square meters, and displays more than 260 snow sculptures.

Tourists visit the 37th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Expo in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Dec. 23, 2024. (Photo provided to China News Service)

7.The world’s largest ice-and-snow theme park, the 26th edition of the Harbin Ice-Snow World, officially opened on Saturday. With an overall planned area of 1 million square meters, the park was built using 300,000 cubic meters of ice and snow making it the largest in its 26-year history.

Tourists visit the Harbin Ice-Snow World, the world’s largest ice-and-snow theme park, in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 21, 2024. (Photo provided to China News Service)

8.The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls of the “Yunxian Man”, dating back to one million years ago, were unveiled by the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on Thursday. 

The “Yunxian Man” fossil human skulls are the most complete ones found in Eurasia for the same era, providing key evidence for the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in East Asia.

The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls of the “Yunxian Man”, dating back to one million years ago, are unveiled by the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Dec 26, 2024. (Photo: China News Service / Zhang Yang)

9.The number of 5G mobile subscribers in China exceeded one billion by the end of November, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday. China plans to build 4.5 million 5G base stations and develop more future industries in 2025, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at its working conference on Friday.

The number of 5G mobile subscribers in China exceeded one billion by the end of November, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday. (Photo: China News Network)

10.In 2024, Chinese athletes won a total of 194 world championships across 33 events, setting a new all-time record, according to a report released by the Competitive Sports Department of the General Administration of Sport of China on Thursday.

China claims its first ever gold medal in team artistic swimming at Paris 2024 in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 7, 2024.(Photo: China News Service / Fu Tian)