In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, attendees applaud during a ceremony to mark the official end of extreme poverty in China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, February 25, 2021. The ruling Communist Party is celebrating the official end of extreme poverty in China with a propaganda campaign that praises President Xi Jinping's role, adding to efforts to cement his image as a history-making leader who is reclaiming his country's rightful place as a global power. (Photo by Yan Yan/Xinhua via AP Photo)





An official with Tianqiao Street Office in Beijing watches a live broadcast of the national commendation conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to honor contributors to the country's poverty eradication work, February 25, 2021. (Photo by CFP/China Stringer Network)





In early spring, the black fungus produced in Guandong Town, congjiang county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province ushered in the picking period on February 24, 2021. Local farmers were busy picking, drying and carrying black fungus, and the edible fungus base was busy. In order to solve the problems of difficult employment and low income of the masses, the town took helping farmers to increase their income as the starting point, and took the cultivation of Auricularia auricula as the short and fast leading industry for the poor people in the town to increase their income and get rich, and made great efforts to promote the green standardized cultivation of Auricularia auricula in the open air, effectively realizing employment at the doorstep of the masses and promoting farmers to increase their income and get rich. (Photo by Sipa Asia/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Commuters wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk through turnstiles in a subway station during the evening rush hour in Beijing, Friday, February 26, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





This photo taken on February 22, 2021 shows people walking past a display of umbrellas decorated with lights for the upcoming Lantern Festival on a commercial street in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Aerial view of a tea plantation on February 23, 2021 in Yibin, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Zeng Lang/VCG via Getty Images)





Performers prepare the traditional dragon dance performance in famous food street during the Lantern Festival on February 26, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. With no recorded cases of COVID-19 community transmissions since May 2020, life for residents in Wuhan is gradually returning to normal. (Photo by Getty Images/China Stringer Network)





A shepherd feeds a lamb with milk in Xilinhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, February 24, 2021. Shepherds on Xilingol grassland are busy taking care of the lambs as warmer days approach. (Photo by Chine Nouvelle/SIPA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A child looks at the lanterns while people shop for the upcoming Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, east China, February 24, 2021. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A couple poses for wedding photos on a street near the Forbidden City in Beijing on February 26, 2021. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





On February 21, 2021, a tourist practiced yoga under a cherry blossom tree in Yichang, Hubei Province, China. (Photo by Sipa Asia/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks past a billboard at an outdoor shopping area in Beijing, Saturday, February 20, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Folk artists perform a lion dance as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations in a village in Zhangjiakou, in northern China's Hebei province on February 24, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Drought caused the water level to drop in part of a reservoir to reveal the remains of villages where people used to live in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, February 21, 2021. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





Citizens visit a space-themed lantern fair before the Lantern Festival on February 23, 2021 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. (Photo by Wang Qiming/VCG via Getty Images)





Citizens visit a space-themed lantern fair before the Lantern Festival on February 23, 2021 in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Wang Qiming/VCG via Getty Images)





People take photos next to a display of lanterns decorated with lights during the Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Taiyuan, in northern China's Shanxi province on February 26, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks by a movie poster at Poly Cinema in Beijing on Thursday, February 25, 2021. With coronavirus well under control in China and cinemas running at half capacity, moviegoers are smashing China's box office records, setting a new high mark for ticket sales in February, with domestic productions far outpacing their Hollywood competitors. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A light-rail train travels by the Yangtze River and through a sea of Armeniaca mume blossoms in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, February 20, 2021. (Photo by CFP/China Stringer Network)





People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus look at a model depicting a rover on Mars during an exhibition at a shopping mall in Beijing on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the red planet in the coming months. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People read books at Songpo bookstore during the Spring Festival holiday on February 16, 2021 in Shaoyang, Hunan Province of China. (Photo by Teng Zhizhong/VCG via Getty Images)





Tourists enjoy a 360-degree immersive art spectacle at the Yuyuan Garden Starry Sky Fantasy Pavilion in Shanghai, China, on February 24, 2021. (Photo by Costfoto/ddp USA/Profimedia)





A cat sits on the empty Great Wall on February 23, 2021 in Beijing, China. Affected by the new coronavirus (COVID-19), the number of visitors to Mutianyu Great Wall in 2020 dropped by about 60%. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)