Would you have recognized it at first glance? Two daring ice swimmers enjoy the wonderful refreshment in the swimming pond of Beiling Park in Shenyang’s sub-zero temperatures. Temperatures in Liaoning’s provincial capital are dropping to 13 degrees below zero these days. It is just a foretaste of the months ahead in north-east China, when the thermometer regularly plummets to minus 20 or even minus 30 degrees.