People shop for fruit and vegetables at an auto vegetable vendor in Jinshi Lanjun community in Hai'an city, east China's Jiangsu province, 21 May 2020. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this Tuesday, May 19, 2020, Chinese residents take part in plaza dance routines on the streets of Beijing, China. This year's version of China's biggest political meeting of the year will be unlike any other. Delayed from March because of the then-spiraling coronavirus outbreak, the decision to go ahead with the gathering signals a partial return to normalcy in the country where the pandemic first broke out. “Partial” being the operative word: The congress will be far from normal. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A child wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus reads a book in a bookstore in Beijing, Sunday, May 17, 2020. China on Sunday reported five new cases of coronavirus, as the commercial hub of Shanghai announced the restart of classes for kindergarteners, first, second, and third-graders from June 2. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This photo taken on May 20, 2020 shows elementary school students wearing wings to maintain social distancing amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in a classroom in Taiyuan in China's northern Shanxi province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Visitors of Miao nationality wearing protective face masks and their traditional clothes walk in front of the Tiananmen gate tower in Beijing, China, 19 May 2020. China will hold the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on 21 May and the National People's Congress (NPC) on 22 May after the two major political meetings initially planned to be held in March 2020 were postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Wu Hong/EPA/EFE)





Residents wearing face masks line up for nucleic acid testings at a residential compound in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China on May 17, 2020. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Cyclists past by workers delivering beverage near a mall on the streets of Beijing Tuesday, May 19, 2020. As job losses surge, China is joining the United States and other governments in rolling out stimulus spending to revive its virus-battered economy. Companies and the public are looking to the meeting of the ceremonial national legislature starting Friday, May 22, 2020 for details. One closely watched indicator: Whether Beijing skips for the first time setting an economic growth target in a sign of how uncertain even the rest of this year is. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Newly-wed couples in Han Dynasty costumes attend a group wedding ceremony at Mochouhu Park on May 20, 2020 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. Each couple at the event has at least one spouse who worked at the frontline of the coronavirus battle. (Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service via Getty Images)





A police officer wearing a mask regulates traffic at an intersection in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, 19 May 2020. People in Guangzhou return to normal daily life as the city starts easing its coronavirus containment measures in the wake of the COVID-19 disease outbreak in China. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA/EFE)





A barber wearing a facemask cuts a customer's hair along a street in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province on May 17, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





An attendant wearing a face mask following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, serves tea for officials at the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on May 22, 2020. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





A Chinese security official wearing a face mask stands guard after the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, May 22, 2020. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo/Pool)





Chinese Premier Li Keqiang walks past President Xi Jinping during the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, May 22, 2020. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo/Pool)





Breakfast in a sealed box, delivered by tray is placed next to a coronavirus prevention notice inside the hotel room which assigned for journalist who was selected to cover the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, Thursday, May 21, 2020. China is strictly limiting the number of journalists who can cover its ongoing legislative session because of the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Women wearing protective face masks walk past the entrance to the Forbidden City on the first day of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China, Friday, May 22, 2020. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





People commute on a bus during morning rush hour in Beijing on May 22, 2020, as the city hosts the opening session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC). China took the rare move of not setting an annual growth target this year after the coronavirus battered the world's second-largest economy and ravaged global growth, Premier Li Keqiang said on May 22. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFP Photo)





Children wearing protective face masks play near the entrance to the Forbidden City on the day of the opening of the National People's Congress (NPC) following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Beijing, China on May 22, 2020. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Medical workers take swab samples from residents to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus, in a street in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 15, 2020. Authorities in the pandemic ground zero of uhan have ordered mass COVID-19 testing for all 11 million residents after a new cluster of cases emerged over the weekend. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Aerial view of a winding road in the remote mountains on May 14, 2020 in Chongqing, China. (Photo by Yang Min/VCG via Getty Images)





Members of Wuhan Acrobatics Troupe wearing face masks, amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, take part in a training session in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 18, 2020. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)