This picture taken on August 10, 2025 shows the sun setting over solar panels at the Dalat Banner Photovoltaic Station , also known as the Junma, or “Fine Horse”, Solar Power Station, in the Kubuqi desert near Ordos, in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's mammoth energy transition efforts in action. Even as other countries have put the brakes on desert solar projects for economic or technical reasons, China – the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases – is still ploughing ahead. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





A Construction worker pinging the eye of a large woman Hanfu sculpture in front of the Hong Kong Skyline on September 28, 2025 in Hong Kong. (Photo by Vernon Yuen/Nexpher Images via ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





Zigong lantern themed on “Hong Kong fairies” is on display at the waterfront park of the West Kowloon Cultural District to celebrate the upcoming China's National Day on September 29, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Li Peiyun/VCG via Getty Images)





Red flags flutter near surveillance cameras on Tiananmen Square before a ceremony to mark Martyrs' Day, a day ahead of the National Day in Beijing, China on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





A girl walks on a historical and cultural block of Xuyi County, east China's Jiangsu Province, on October 1, 2025. Xuyi County of Jiangsu Province has introduced a series of measures to boost tourism during the National Day holiday, such as free admission to a local scenic spot, and distribution of consumption vouchers, in an effort to unleash the vitality of tourism-driven economy during the holiday. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A ground mechanic is inspecting a high-speed train in the maintenance workshop of Nanjing South EMU Operation Station in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China in the early morning of October 1, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)





Tourists ride camels at Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on October 6, 2025 in Dunhuang, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province of China. Tourist destinations across China are witnessing a surge in visitors as the country's eight-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday began on October 1. (Photo by Chen Kun/VCG via Getty Images)





Drivers merge onto expressway lanes after passing through the Wuzhuang toll station at Chuzhou, in China's eastern Anhui province, as they make their way back home on the second-to-last day of an eight-day National Day holiday on October 7, 2025. The Wuzhuang toll station, located on the border between Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, is China's largest expressway toll station, with a total of 36 lanes. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Aerial view of bullet trains waiting on storage tracks at Nanjing South Railway Station on October 10, 2025 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. National railways began implementing a new train operation map on October 11, and arranged to operate more than 13,000 passenger trains. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images)





A Gravity-1 rocket lifts off from a launch ship in the waters off Haiyang in China's eastern Shandong province on October 11, 2025. The rocket, claimed to be the world biggest solid-fuel carrier rocket, was making its second launch and carried a wide-field satellite and two experimental satellites into orbit. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Tourists enjoy the autumn scenery in the Changchun Botanical Garden in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, October 12, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Aerial view of tourists visiting the roaring Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River on October 12, 2025 in Jixian County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province of China. (Photo by Lyu Guiming/VCG via Getty Images)





A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the Shiyan-31 test satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on October 13, 2025. China successfully launched a new test satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday. The Shiyan-31 test satellite was launched at 6:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the preset orbit successfully. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)





A cargo ship sails into the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on October 13, 2025. China's exports to the United States jumped more than eight percent in September from the previous month, official data showed on October 13, following days of worsening trade tensions between the world's top two economies. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Aerial view of farmers harvesting dryland scallions during the autumn harvest season on October 14, 2025 in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Yu Jing/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Staff take a boat to check the growth of crabs in Metasequoia Forest at Sihong County Crab Breeding Base in Jiangsu Province on October 17, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Kites fly high in the sky during 2025 China's National Kite Invitational Competition on October 17, 2025 in Rudong County, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Xu Congjun/VCG via Getty Images)





A farmer dries moso bamboo sticks at a bamboo product processing factory on October 18, 2025 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province of China. (Photo by Deng Heping/VCG via Getty Images)





A technician works on chip processing equipment at a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Suqian, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on October 20, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Employees manufacture anchor chains on the production line at Zhongyun Marine Equipment in Suqian, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on October 21, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)