This photo taken on July 30, 2023 shows players competing during an invitational game of the grassroots basketball competition CunBA in Taipan village, Taijiang county, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. Athletes in the “CunBA” – with “cun” meaning village in Chinese – are all amateurs, and the prizes are simple platters of roast meat. But it's the pure electricity of the games that keeps fans and players hooked, rising in recent years from a humble local tradition into a viral hit and staple of Beijing's propaganda machine. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents are evacuated from flooded areas in Zhuozhou in northern China's Hebei Province on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. A highway bridge in northern China collapsed due to flash floods triggered by heavy rains, and two cars fell into the river, state media reported Thursday, as parts of China are experiencing the worst floods in decades. (Photo by Mu Yu/Xinhua via AP Photo)





This photo taken on August 2, 2023 shows residents affected by flood waiting to evacuate after heavy rains in Zhuozhou, in northern China’s Hebei province. Deadly rains that pummelled China's capital in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years ago, Beijing's weather service said on August 2, as a massive cleanup operation began. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People make their way through floodwaters at a residential compound after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





A man operates a front loader to evacuate people through a flooded road after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





People stand by a rail amid floodwaters after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





People ride a boat through a flooded road after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





People stand on a front loader during an evacuation at a flooded residential compound after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 3, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





A local resident gestures s he waits in chest deep floodwaters for a rescue boat to be helped to safety in an area inundated with floodwaters on August 3, 2023 near Zhuozhou, Hebei Province south of Beijing, China. Disaster response teams have been working to control floodwaters and help stranded residents after the strongest storm in years battered northern China. The extreme rainfall from Typhoon Doksuri was the heaviest to hit Beijing in 140 years, inundating the capital and triggering flash floods and landslides. In nearby Hebei province, officials said floodwaters could take a month to recede. More than 100,000 people were evacuated from the hard-hit city of Zhuozhou, where rescuers used rafts to reach people trapped in villages cut off by deep water. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





A worker stands next to a Southern Two-toed Sloth at the Sloth and Friends Studio inside Hong Kong Ocean Park on August 3, 2023 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Vernon Yuen/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A man washes his clothes in a stream near debris left over after flood waters devastated the village of Nanxinfang on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, August 4, 2023. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman reacts as she fails to find her house after flood waters devastate Nanxinfang village on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, August 4, 2023. Heavy rain and high water levels on rivers in northeastern China were threatening cities downstream on Friday, prompting the evacuation of thousands, although the country appears to have averted the worst effects of the typhoon season battering parts of east Asia. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Men (L) salvage air conditioners next to damaged cars following strong rains and floods in the mountains of Mentougou District, west of Beijing, China, 04 August 2023. Beijing recorded its heaviest rainfall in 140 years brought by Typhoon Doksuri, causing floods, the evacuation of thousands of people and 21 deaths. (Photo by Mark R. Cristino/EPA)





Workers remove a neon sign that has hung on the Tai Ping Koon restaurant building since 1964 in Hong Kong, Sunday, August 6, 2023. Once ubiquitous in Hong Kong's streetscapes, the city's iconic neon signs are disappearing due to tightening government regulations. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, heavy machinery remove rocks fallen on a road in the aftermath of rainstorms in Shijiaying Town of Fangshan District on the outskirts of Beijing on Sunday, August 6, 2023. Multiple people including rescuers have been killed in recent flooding in China's capital, and many others are missing, officials said Wednesday, as much of the country's north remains threatened by unusually heavy rainfall. (Photo by Ju Huanzong/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A man holding a child walks across a damaged bridge after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Li Yujie, 47, weeps outside her flood-stricken hardware store after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Wang Dan, 30, stands in floodwaters near a damaged corn farm, after rain and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, at a village in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





This aerial photo taken on August 7, 2023 shows people cooling off at a water park in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A woman tastes lab-grown meat served by CellX at an event to mark the opening of the cultivated meat company's pilot production facility in Shanghai, China on August 9, 2023. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)