Aerial view of people circling around a bonfire to celebrate the Torch Festival on July 22, 2025 in Butuo County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China. The Torch Festival is the biggest festival of people from the Yi ethnic group. (Photo by Luo Li/VCG via Getty Images)





A worker brooms the floor at a steel factory in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 22, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People dressed in traditional costumes of Yi ethnic group parade on the opening ceremony of a torch festival in Butuo County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 22, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Dragon boat teams compete in a dragon boat race in Zhenyuan ancient town, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 22, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Aerial view of a farmer feeding geese at a breeding base on July 23, 2025 in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Xue Jinlong/VCG via Getty Images)





A woman walks across the window panels of the Phoenix Center, in Beijing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A rider in traditional Kangba costumes performs equestrian skills at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Yushu Horse Racing Festival and the 4th Sanjiangyuan Ecological Culture Tourism Festival on July 25, 2025 in Yushu City, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province of China. Yushu Horse Racing Festival is one of the grandest festivals in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai. (Photo by Ma Mingyan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Unitree Robotics' humanoid boxing robot competes against a boxing enthusiast at the exhibition area of the 2025 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance on July 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images)





This photo shows a view of the Great Wall on Taihang Mountains in Laiyuan County, north China's Hebei Province, July 26, 2025. (Photo by Ma Weibing/Xinhua via Getty Images)





Aerial view of workers repairing fishing nets in preparation for a new round of fishing season on July 27, 2025 in Wenling, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Zhu Haiwei/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG via Getty Images)





Damaged cars are seen in a flooded neighbourhood in Miyun district northern Beijing on July 29, 2025, following heavy rains. Heavy rain in Beijing killed 30 people and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands as swathes of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that sparked deadly landslides, state media said on July 29. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





Rescue workers ride on a front loader as they make their way through a flooded road, after heavy rainfall in Miyun district of Beijing, China on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Yan Ping, 43, stands at her mud-covered house as she speaks to Reuters, after heavy rainfall flooded the area in Miyun district of Beijing, China on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





A man rides a motorcycle through a flooded street in Miyun district, on the outskirts of Beijing on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





Four men look at a car whased away by flooding in Taishitun, in the district of Miyun, Beijing, China, 29 July 2025. The floods brought on by the rains in past days in Beijing resulted in the deaths of thirty people and the relocation of over 80,000 others. (Photo by Andrés Martínez Casares/EPA)





A person wears rain coat while walking on a street during heavy rain and high winds, after Tropical Storm Co-May made landfall in a nearby city, in Shanghai, China on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





A restaurant staff member gestures next to replicas of the Terracotta Warriors at a commercial district in Beijing on July 30, 2025. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Phoot)





People rest at the entrance of a hallway of an air-conditioned metro station amid a red alert for heat in Chongqing, China on July 31, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





A person jumps off from a diving board into the Jialing River amid a red alert for heat in Chongqing, China on July 31, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





Tourists visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on August 1, 2025. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)