With the Spring Festival fast approaching, the festive atmosphere is materializing across Ordos city in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, with the traditional Chinese festival falling on Feb 1 this year.

The streets and alleys of Ordos city have now been resplendently decorated with lights, banners and lanterns, illuminating the city and creating a vibrant and colorful air in the evening.

A lantern celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China is illuminated in resilient lights. [Photo/Ordos Release]

Lanterns in the form of a horse and mountains are installed in Ejin Horoo Banner in Ordos city. [Photo/Ordos Release]

A Peking opera actor's headdress serves as the inspiration for a set of brilliant lights, designed to welcome the Spring Festival. [Photo/Ordos Release]

Buildings and flower beds in the Kangbashi district of Ordos city are decorated with vivid lights, to welcome the Spring Festival. [Photo/Ordos Release]

Lanterns in the shape of tiger and copper coins are erected in the Dongsheng district in Ordos city. [Photo/Ordos Release]