Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 23, 2022. As the former British colony marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China, reeling from pandemic curbs that devastated business and a crackdown on its pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong leaders say it is time to transform again and become a tech center that relies more on ties with nearby Chinese factory cities than on global trade. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A resident walks besides the Chinese and Hong Kong flags hanging from a residential building to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, at a public housing estate, in Hong Kong, Saturday, June 25, 2022. As the former British colony marks the 25th anniversary of its return to China, reeling from pandemic curbs that devastated business and a crackdown on its pro-democracy movement, Hong Kong leaders say it is time to transform again and become a tech center that relies more on ties with nearby Chinese factory cities than on global trade. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A Chinese junk sails across Victoria Harbor to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





Light installations with Chinese and Hong Kong flags are displayed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on June 25, 2022 shows people in a pool at a water park in Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A woman wearing a face mask looks as she walks through red lanterns on display at a subway station in Beijing, Sunday, June 26, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A restaurant cook wearing a mask takes a break out on the sidewalk, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A man wearing a mask lowers his sunglasses to look at his phone, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents wearing masks past by a bike covered with a flower pattern rain cover, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Delivery drivers wearing masks go about their work, Monday, June 27, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Students wearing face masks and holding umbrellas in the rain enter a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 27, 2022. Primary and middle school students in the capital city returned to school on Monday after school classes being shuttered for months due to the COVID-19 controls. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Students wearing face masks are accompanied by their relatives as they arrive at a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A student wearing a face mask arrives at a primary school in Beijing, Monday, June 27, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Giant panda Ji Lan enjoys an iced birthday cake at Nanning Zoo on June 27, 2022 in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Giant panda Ji Lan and her brother Ji Mei celebrated their sixth birthday on Monday in Nanning. (Photo by Yu Jing/China News Service via Getty Images)





A worker harvests mushrooms at a science and innovation park on June 27, 2022 in Bijie, Guizhou Province of China. (Photo by Luo Dafu/VCG via Getty Images)





Cleaners clean a spherical statue during rainy weather at the entrance of Solana shopping center in Beijing, China, 28 June 2022 (issued 29 June 2022). Beijing Municipal Bureau of Meteorology released a blue rainstorm warning signal on 28 June 2022, as it is expected that there will be short-term heavy rainfall with an hourly rainfall intensity of more than 30mm in Daxing, Haidian, Fengtai and Shijingshan district. (Photo by Wu Hao/EPA/EFE)





Archaeologists work at No. 8 sacrificial pit of the Sanxingdui Ruins site on June 28, 2022 in Guanghan, Deyang City, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Zhang Lang/China News Service via Getty Images)





Tourists enjoy cooling air at the Yuyuan Garden during a hot summer day on June 28, 2022 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Yang Jianzheng/VCG via Getty Images)





A customer scans a QR code with her mobile phone before entering a restaurant, as restaurants resume dine-in services amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China on June 29, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Police officers inspect journalists' bags at a media position outside the Hong Kong West Kowloon railway station, before the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule, in Hong Kong, China on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Paul Yeung/Reuters)





A woman takes pictures of Chinese and Hong Kong flags decorating a street, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's handover to Chinese rule, in Hong Kong, China on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Joyce Zhou/Reuters)