Deliverymen of Chinese shopping platform Meituan leave after a briefing before they start their shift near a mall in Beijing on August 21, 2025 (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A woman and child clad in traditional attire ride an electric scooter in Beijing on August 25, 2025. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





This aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 25, 2025 shows a load test on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, set to become the world's tallest bridge, had completed a key load test as of Monday, ahead of its scheduled opening in late September The bridge is 2,890 meters long with a main span of 1,420 meters. Rising 625 meters above the river, it will set the record for both the tallest bridge in the world and the world's largest span bridge built in a mountainous area, upon completion. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People visit the set where “Dead to Rights”, a Chinese historical drama about the 1937 Nanjing massacre during the Japanese occupation of Nanjing in the Second Sino-Japanese War, was filmed at the Shanghai Film Park in Shanghai on August 27, 2025. China says 300,000 people died in a six-week spree of killing, rape and destruction by the Japanese military that began in December 1937 after invading troops seized the city of Nanjing. Some respected foreign academics estimate a lower number of victims, but mainstream scholarship does not question that a massacre took place. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Hair salon owner Wang Xueru gives a child a haircut in a design of a tank to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, at her store in Beijing, China on August 28, 2025. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Local villagers take a train of Chongqing Rail Transit Line 4 to sell their home-grown vegetables and fruits to the urbanites on August 30, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Since it was opened to traffic in June 2022, the Rail Transit Line 4 of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has undertaken a different mission from its counterparts. Its first passengers every day are a bevy of villagers from its departure station, who come all the way to sell their home-grown vegetables to the urbanites. Because of such a signature scene, the subway line is also nicknamed the “pack basket line” by many Chongqing citizens. (Photo by Li Hongbo/VCG via Getty Images)





Students run with new books on hands in the campus of a primary school as new semester starts on September 1, 2025 in Hehzou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Li Haotu/VCG via Getty Images)





In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and China's President Xi Jinping attend a meeting at The Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Kazakov/AFP Photo)





Paramilitary police stand guard ahead of a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Military equipment passes during the military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, September 3, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Chinese female troops march during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Armoured vehicles and soldiers are seen during a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Tiananmen Square on September 03, 2025, in Beijing, China. China's Victory Day military parade serves as a powerful display of national pride and military power. This year's parade carries heightened geopolitical weight with the attendance of leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Narendra Modi, underlining China's diplomatic alliances as it presents itself as an alternative global leader. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)





Hero units' banner formation marches through Tian'anmen Square during a military parade in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2025. China on Wednesday held a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A member of the People's Liberation Army stands as YJ-17 hypersonic anti-ship missiles are displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Unmanned ship-based helicopters are displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





DF-17 hypersonic missiles are displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)





A military band and choir members perform during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by China Daily via Reuters)





Members of the People's Liberation Army stand as the strategic strike group displays JL-3 intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missiles, during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





The militia formation marches through Tian'anmen Square during a grand gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War on September 3, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Zhang Wei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Unmanned ship-based helicopters during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Reuters)