Panda family seen playing in snow at conservation base

A delightful moment was captured on camera as giant panda Fu Feng and her family enjoyed a snowy playground in their enclosure in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The footage, released on Tuesday, showed Fu Feng and her twin cubs, playfully climbing and tumbling on a wooden climbing frame dusted with fresh snow.

Fu Feng and her twin brother Fu Ban were born on August 7, 2016 in Austria. They returned to China on December 4, 2018. In August 2025, Fu Feng successfully gave birth to the pair of twins.

The family resides in the Wolong Shenshuping Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), where the footage was captured.

The CCRCGP is a world-leading institution dedicated to the breeding and conservation of one of China's national treasures, the giant panda. The center has established a global platform for promoting international cooperation and exchanges involving 18 zoos from 16 countries and regions, 39 domestic animal breeding institutions, and over 10 scientific research institutes.

A dreamlike sea of clouds appeared over the Jiuhua Mountain, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism, in east China's Anhui Province after a bout of spring rain on Wednesday.

The mountain mists rose up and gathered into a vast sea of clouds, swirling and turning among the thousand-meter-high peaks, creating a picturesque scene together with ancient pines, temples, and rugged peaks, and presenting a stunning landscape with mountains half hidden in the clouds that were skirting around the summits.

According to staff at the scenic area, the Jiuhua Mountain is blessed with abundant moisture and an appropriate temperature difference between day and night in spring. So the sea of clouds appears frequently, and lasts for a long time in a rich variety of forms as well, making spring the golden season to view the sea of clouds.