Employees make Christmas products at Fuye toy factory following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China on September 16, 2020. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





People walk by new village houses decorated with colourful paintings built by the Chinese government for ethnic minority members in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 10, 2020. The ruling Communist Party says its initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. Yi ethnic minority members were moved out of their mountain villages in China’s southwest and into the newly built town in an anti-poverty initiative. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Minority women collect cabbages at a farm near their village houses built by the Chinese government for the ethnic minority members in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A minority woman stands in between new village houses in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man holding an umbrella walks by a new village house decorated with a patriotic painting which was built by the Chinese government for ethnic minority members in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Ethnic minority women walk with their child near a kindergarten with a banner which reads “I'm a China doll, can speak Mandarin” at the apartment houses compound built by the Chinese government in Yuexi county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 11, 2020. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Ethnic minority children wearing their costumes learn to sing at a kindergarten class at the apartment houses compound built by the Chinese government in Yuexi county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 11, 2020. China's ruling Communist Party says its initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. But they can require drastic changes, sometimes uprooting whole communities. They fuel complaints the party is trying to erase cultures as it prods minorities to embrace the language and lifestyle of the Han who make up more than 90% of China’s population. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman sweeps outside a kindergarten school displaying a banner which reads: “Please speak Mandarin when you enter the school” at a village in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A visitor wearing a face mask take a selfie with the iconic cartoon characters Goofy and Pluto at the Hong Kong Disneyland, Friday, September 25, 2020. Hong Kong Disneyland reopened its doors to visitors after closed temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





Aerial photo of the 49m-high bronze statue of “the oldest person in the world” in Rugao, Jiangsu Province, China, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





A man and a child wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a street in the rain as motorists are clogged with heavy traffic on a road in Beijing, Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Xi Jinping, China's president and the leader of its Communist Party, cast the fight against the virus as an important exercise in international cooperation, an opportunity to “join hands and be prepared to meet even more global challenges”. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask takes selfies in front of a floral installation featuring a medical worker in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), set up ahead of Chinese National Day on October 1, on Changan Avenue in Beijing, China on September 25, 2020. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Visitors wear face masks on a ride during the reopening of Disneyland to the public, after a second closure due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Hong Kong, China on September 25, 2020. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





An attendee wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus uses a brush to draw calligraphy characters on an electronic display at the China Beijing International High Tech Expo in Beijing, Saturday, September 19, 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic largely under control, China has once again begun holding business events such as expos and trade fairs. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





This photo taken on September 20, 2020 shows people visiting a shopping district made out of shipping containers in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A worker works inside a lab at the SinoVac vaccine factory in Beijing on Thursday, September 24, 2020. SinoVac, one of China's pharmaceutical companies behind a leading COVID-19 vaccine candidate says its vaccine will be ready by early 2021 for distribution worldwide, including the U.S. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Visitors wearing face masks take a selfie with the iconic cartoon character Winnie the Pooh at the Hong Kong Disneyland, Friday, September 25, 2020. Hong Kong Disneyland reopened its doors to visitors after closed temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





Ushers wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, take a rest on the sidelines of the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China show, in Beijing, China on September 26, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A new electric sightseeing vehicle is seen at Wulingyuan Scenic Area on September 21, 2020 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province of China. New sightseeing vehicles with video surveillance system and cameras will put into service on Chinese National Day holiday. (Photo by Deng Daoli/VCG via Getty Images)





A staff member of Yutian County poses for a video on marigold industry at an agricultural industrial park in Yutian County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, September 20, 2020. As one of the five counties in Hotan Prefecture that have not been lifted out of poverty, Yutian County is accelerating its steps to shake off poverty by planting marigold. (Photo by Chine Nouvelle/SIPA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)