Workers try to clear an area with snow ahead of the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China on Friday, February 7, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





People attend a “Wulong Xuhua” show to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Taijiang County, China, 11 February 2025 (issued 12 February 2025). The traditional “Wulong Xuhua” show is a genre of dragon dance performed amid fireworks by the Miao ethnic group. “Wulong” means the dragon dance, while “Xuhua” refers to a local specialty firework. Over 100 dragon dance teams gathered here to celebrate the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on 12 February this year. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/EPA)





A woman (bottom R) walks past a promotion for the Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2, produced by Enlight Media, outside the production company's headquarters in Beijing on February 11, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





People walk past a figure at a park during the Lantern festival in Beijing on February 12, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Spectators watch as robot dogs draped in lion costumes perform on the Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations, in Jinan, Shandong province, China on February 12, 2025. (Photo by CnsPhoto via Reuters)





Buildings are lit up with characters from the movie “Ne Zha 2” in Chengdu, in China's southwest Sichuan province on February 12, 2025. Animated Chinese blockbuster “Ne Zha 2”, based on traditional mythology, has smashed multiple box office records on its way to becoming the country's most successful movie ever. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Chinese opera performers wait in the cold backstage before a show for Lantern Festival during Yuanxiao, the fifteen day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman takes photos near lanterns at the Lantern Festival during Yuanxiao, the fifteen day of the Lunar New Year in Beijing, Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Performers set off fireworks during a parade celebrating the Lantern Festival in Meizhou, China, on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A couple walks out of a store entrance which is decorated with heart shaped ornaments in Shanghai, China, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





Panda cubs play during a debut ceremony for the 6-month-old twin panda cubs, at the Ocean Park in Hong Kong, China on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Lam Yik/Reuters)





Staff members lead robot dogs during the 2025 AI Intelligent Robot Exhibition at Nanjing International Expo Centre on February 16, 2025 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Aerial view of LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort under construction on February 17, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A group of women in Qing dynasty costumes takes an electric tricycle outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on February 19, 2025. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Visitors dressed in traditional costumes pose for photos at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Visitors dressed in traditional costumes to look like the emperor and dowager walks up the steps at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Women dressed up in Chinese traditional costumes visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, China on February 21, 2025. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





A restorer of cultural relics works at a restoration room of antique clocks at the Palace Museum during a media tour organized by the government in Beijing on February 21, 2025. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Robots from Booster Robotics play football during the Global Developer Conference, organised by the Shanghai AI Industry Association, in Shanghai on February 21, 2025. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





People stand as they wait to board a ferry to cross the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China on February 26, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)