Residents wearing face masks wait in line to get their routine COVID-19 throat swabs at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Tuesday, August 30, 2022. A Chinese think tank issued a rare public disagreement on Monday with the ruling Communist Party's severe “zero COVID” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an “economic stall”. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman and child wearing face masks walk along a path at a public park in Beijing, Tuesday, August 30, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman gets her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Tuesday, August 30, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Young students play a game after class as new semester begins on August 29, 2022 in Tongren, Guizhou Province of China. (Photo by Hu Panxue/VCG via Getty Images)





A man and a woman dance in an underground passage in Beijing on August 30, 2022. (Photo by WANG Zhao/AFP Photo)





Residents line up for Covid-19 screening in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Chinese authorities have locked down Chengdu, a southwestern city of 21 million people, following a spike in COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A visitor experiences VR during the Taobao Creation Festival on August 30, 2022 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China.During the festival, well-known online stores will be gathered in the offline market, so that the audience can experience the products full of future technology. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





This aerial photo taken on October 31, 2021 shows buildings of China's developer Country Garden Holdings in Zhenjiang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. China's largest developer Country Garden Holdings reported a record 96 percent on-year drop in its first-half earnings on August 30, 2022, in the latest grim illustration of the economic chaos coursing through the country's property sector. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A medical worker in protective gear waits to administer a COVID-19 test at a coronavirus testing site setup near the venue for China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, Wednesday, August 31, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on August 31, 2022 shows an image welcoming the 20th Communist Party Congress, created by growing different varieties of rice, in a paddy in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This photo taken on August 31, 2022 shows a health worker taking a swab sample from a man to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus in China's northern Tianjin. (Photo by CNS/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on September 1, 2022 shows police officers checking information on a road amid restrictions due to an outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province. (Photo by CNS/AFP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on September 1, 2022 shows nearly empty roads amid restrictions due to an outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province. (Photo by CNS/AFP Photo)





Health workers take swab samples from residents to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Chengdu, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on September 1, 2022. (Photo by CNS/AFP Photo)





People lineup for a COVID-19 test in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, 02 September 2022. China has put the southwestern city of Chengdu, home to 21 million people on lockdown as the country sticks to its zero-Covid policy ahead of the 20th National Congress. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A man rides a unicycle on a bank of Huangpu River as Typhoon Hinnamnor approaches, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China on September 3, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Models prepare backstage before presenting a creation from the Heaven Gaia by Xiong Ying during the China Fashion Week in Beijing on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A woman watches models presenting creations from Saint.joy by Bian Huizhong during China Fashion Week in Beijing on September 5, 2022. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A model presents a creation by Chinese designer Xiong Ying in her Heaven Gaia collection during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, Sunday, September 4, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a villager across a river following an earthquake in Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, September 5, 2022. Dozens people were reported killed and missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown. (Photo by Cheng Xueli/Xinhua via AP Photo)