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He Rui braved the howling wind to glide down the 521-meter Super Ice Slides at Harbin Ice-Snow World in northeast China's Harbin city, as this winter's first group of tourists flocked to the world's largest ice and snow theme park on Wednesday for the long-awaited winter entertainment.

The tourist from southwest China's Guizhou Province traveled more than 3,000 kilometers for the magical experience after years of anticipation and was visibly thrilled by the exhilarating fun.

A China-Europe freight train bound for Budapest, Hungary waits for departure at Tuanjiecun Station in Chongqing, Southwest China, Nov 30, 2025.

A freight train bound for Budapest, Hungary, departed from Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Sunday, marking the launch of a new fixed-schedule China-Europe freight train service, also known as China Railway Express.

The train, carrying automotive and motorcycle parts, electronic products and other consumer goods, is expected to take about 11 days to reach Budapest -- a major transport hub serving Central and Eastern Europe. The train will exit China via the Alataw Pass in its northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and travel through countries including Kazakhstan, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, before arriving in Hungary.

When Peruvian green energy entrepreneur Luis Zwiebach wanted to buy an electric vehicle in 2019, he flew 4,000 miles to California to test drive Tesla’s Model 3 sedan. But Tesla lacked an official importer and he couldn’t find a way around Peru’s complex vehicle import procedures.

He was not deterred. “There was a gentleman who had already imported one and wanted to sell it,” Zwiebach said. “So I went to see it, and I bought it.”

Charging the Tesla initially proved difficult at his friend’s beach house outside Lima. “The car wouldn’t charge because there was no grounding device,” he said. “We grabbed a fork, stuck it into the soil to make a ground — and the car charged.”

As China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) will officially launch island-wide independent customs operation on December 18, a local customs official said on Tuesday that all software and hardware conditions for the Hainan FTP's island-wide independent customs operation have been met, with all preparatory work essentially finalized.

The island-wide independent customs operation will give Hainan greater latitude to explore and implement high-level opening-up measures, which will benefit the island's high-quality development and pave the way for nationwide reform and opening-up, experts said, noting that it sends a clear message to the world of China's firm commitment to expanding high-level opening-up.