New soldiers brave wind and cold in training on a snow-covered mountain in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in mid-December 2015. Hundreds of fresh recruits, carrying heavy backpacks, took the intensive training to finish a rough journey of 260 kilometers in seven days, while the temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Yinhe)
