Since the onset of winter, Lugu Lake, located on the border between southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, has offered a picturesque scene where morning mist rises from the lake amid gentle sunlight.
Lugu Lake is renowned for its crystal-clear water and scenic beauty, making it a favorite destination for photographers. In Yanyuan County of Sichuan's Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, the sceneries unfold every morning along with the morning light. A gentle veil of mist rises above the lake, softly wrapping the distant mountains and shoreline like a thin layer of gauze.
As the sun climbs higher, its rays cut through the mist, bathing mountains and water in a warm golden hue. Thousands of red-billed gulls take flight through the haze, skimming the water's surface. Drifting across the lake, visitors become part of the scene, where mist, sunlight and soaring gulls intertwine to create the pure and captivating beauty of Lugu Lake in winter.
Lugu Lake offers enchanting winter scenery at sunrise
The Chinese naval hospital ship, Silk Road Ark, carried out a medical rescue drill in Atlantic waters during its Mission Harmony 2025, testing its capability to provide medical support during long-distance deployments.
The drill marked the vessel's first overseas medical-support exercise in unfamiliar waters in 2026, designed to simulate real-world emergency response scenarios far from home ports.
It brought together the hospital ship, a sea-based medical facility and shipborne helicopters in a coordinated rescue operation.
The exercise was conducted against a simulated backdrop of a commercial vessel in distress on the high seas with multiple casualties. After receiving the emergency signals, a shipborne helicopter immediately took off under an aerial evacuation plan, transferring simulated injured personnel to the triage area for rapid assessment and emergency treatment.
As part of the exercise, medical teams practiced a time-sensitive rescue approach, combining casualty transfer, triage and treatment to ensure prompt and accurate assessment of injuries under operational conditions.
"We followed the principle of providing treatment while transferring and carrying out triage and rescuing, ensuring that casualties are correctly assessed at the earliest time possible. If a patient is in a critical condition, we must carry out necessary emergency treatment in the triage area. Once vital signs are relatively stable, the patient is then transferred to an appropriate treatment unit," said Jiang Yingbo, a member of the Mission Harmony 2025.
Severely injured patients were transferred to intensive care units for further observation and treatment after surgery. A medical expert group then conducted timely consultations to formulate targeted treatment plans.
Under complex sea conditions in distant waters, the drill covered multiple training modules including maritime evacuation, triage, emergency treatment and surgery, strengthening the military medical ship's integrated emergency medical response, and enhancing the navy's far-sea medical support capability, according to the authorities.
Chinese navy hospital ship drills medical rescue in Atlantic waters
