A man wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 sits with dogs on leashes near a neighborhood with a suspected coronavirus case in Beijing, Wednesday, September 15, 2021. China tightened lockdowns and increased orders for mass testing in cities along its east coast Wednesday amid the latest surge in COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





An elderly resident wears a mask while waiting for a ride on a sidewalk in Beijing, China, Thursday, September 16, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A man is silhouetted as he watches a TV screen showing CCTV broadcasting a news of Chinese astronauts sit inside the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft preparing to return to earth, at a shopping mall in Beijing, Thursday, September 16, 2021. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers walk near debris in the aftermath of an earthquake in Fuji Township of Luxian County in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, on Thursday, September 16, 2021.An earthquake collapsed homes, killed some and injured others Thursday in southwest China's Sichuan province, state media reported. (Photo by Jiang Hongjing/Xinhua via AP Photo)





Rescuers evacuate a resident after a 5.4 earthquake that killed three and injured a dozen in Luzhou, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on September 16, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A crossing guard wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 stands at an intersection in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, September 16, 2021. China on Thursday reported several dozen additional locally-transmitted cases of coronavirus as it works to contain an outbreak in the eastern province of Fujian. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 walk along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, September 16, 2021. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Firefighters spray disinfectant at the Yangzhou East train station in Yangzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province on September 16, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Young performers dressed in costumes leave following a ceremony unveiling the slogan for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, in Beijing, China on September 17, 2021. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





Astronauts Nie Haisheng (C), Liu Boming (R) and Tang Hongbo are out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-12 spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on September 17, 2021. Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, have completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday. Photo by Lian Zhen/Xinhua News Agency)





Teresa Xu holds up cards one of which reads “My Womb, My Choice” before attending a court session at the Chaoyang People's Court in Beijing, China, Friday, September 17, 2021. After almost two years, the unmarried woman suing for the right to freeze her eggs in Beijing, is getting her case heard in court in the first legal challenge of its kind in China. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents wait in line for nucleic acid testing in Xianyou county, Putian city, southeastern China's Fujian Province Thursday, September 16, 2021. China has reported another 62 cases of COVID-19, even as the number of Chinese citizens fully vaccinated has topped 1 billion. (Photo by Wei Peiquan/Xinhua via AP Photo)





Visitors in historical dress and wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 walk near the entrance to the Forbidden City in Beijing, Saturday, September 18, 2021. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A man plays the popular Honor of Kings online game from Chinese gaming platform Tencent during a high speed train from Henan to Beijing Wednesday, September 15, 2021. China has set new rules limiting the amount of time kids can spend playing online games. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A police officer guard at a street during a protest against an election committee that will vote for the city's leader in Hong Kong Sunday, September 19, 2021. Hong Kong's polls for an election committee that will vote for the city's leader kicked off Sunday amid heavy police presence, with chief executive Carrie Lam saying that it is “very meaningful” as it is the first election to take place following electoral reforms. (Photo by Vincent Yu/AP Photo)





People visit the lanterns display set up for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the fishing village of Tai O in Hong Kong, China, 17 September 2021 (issued 19 September 2021). According to the Lunar Year calendar this year, the festival falls on 21 September 2021. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Women wearing face masks to help protect themselves from coronavirus wave as they line-up to enter a merchandise store at the Universal Studios Beijing in Beijing, Monday, September 20, 2021. Thousands of people brave the rain visit to the newest location of the global brand of theme parks which officially opens on Monday. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man masks himself after getting a nuclei test for COVID-19 in Beijing Saturday, September 18, 2021. China's “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and stop transmission of the coronavirus has kept kept the country where the virus first was detected in late 2019 largely free of the disease. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers conduct search and rescue at the site of an overturned passenger ship in Liupanshui in southwest China's Guizhou province, Sunday, September 19, 2021. The boat has left multiple people dead, with several others still missing, according to state media on Sunday. CCTV said that the ship overturned shortly after it departed Saturday evening. Preliminary investigations suggest that the ship was blown over by strong winds. (Photo by Ou Dongqu/Xinhua via AP Photo)