• WINTER PARADISE
  Swans enjoy the winter wonderland of the Ili Valley in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region following a snowfall on January 21 (ZHAO GE)
• SUBWAY BOOKS
  A passenger checks the latest contents on M Subway-Library on a train of subway Line 4 in Beijing on January 19.
  
  Subway Line 4 passengers can read e-books by scanning a QR code with cellphones in the cars. As Beijing’s first underground library, the M Subway-Library is a non-profit project sponsored by Beijing MTR Corp. and the National Library to select and recommend 10 books for free online reading yearly. (SUN RUIBO)
• HIGH-YIELD FRUIT
  A farmer conducts artificial pollination on peach blossom in a nectarine planting base in Liuxinzhuang Village, Botou, north China’s Hebei Province on January 21.
  
  Nectarine will be on offer in April, during which each mu of land growing nectarine will net local farmers roughly 50,000 yuan ($8,045). (MA NING)
• BOOSTING POWER DISTRIBUTION
  Workers transform and upgrade the power distribution network in an industrial park in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province.
  
  Nanjing Power Supply Co. starts more than 1,300 electric network transformation programs in the city on January 21, in order to cope with rising corporate electricity consumption and strengthen its power supply capacity. (SHEN PENG)