A man stands on the top of a building as farmers' houses are demolished to make space for new property to be built, in front of a residential compound in Hefei, Anhui province, in this October 19, 2013 file photo. Angry Chinese authorities have seized up to 1 trillion yuan ($157 billion) from local governments who failed to spend their budget allocations, sources said, as Beijing seeks ways to stimulate economic growth which is at its slowest for 25 years. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A couple kisses on a street in Beijing, China, September 16, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A model of the ARJ21 regional jet from Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) is displayed at the Aviation Expo China 2015 in Beijing, China, September 16, 2015. Chinese state-owned plane maker COMAC said on Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with lessor ICBC Financial Leasing Co to lease 10 COMAC ARJ21 regional jets and 10 of its C919 single-aisle commercial jets to Thai airline City Airways. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Workers wait for a shuttle bus to leave after a day's work outside a construction site in Beijing's central business district June 24, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the latter's state visit later this month on issues that have strained relations between the two countries, but his approach will be tempered because for better or worse the world’s two biggest economies are inextricably bound together. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A vendor sells soybean milk at a roadside snack booth in Beijing, in this October 16, 2014 file photo. China's record pace of soybean imports is running out of steam, in what is likely to be a blow to U.S. exporters that normally ship 40 percent of their annual soybean crop to the world's top buyer over the October-to-December period. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Grade-one children, wearing traditional costumes, attend an entrance ceremony in a primary school in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, September 16, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A trainer (L) checks the time of a dealership sales staff holding on to a plank posture as a part of program during a sales camp at BMW Group Training Center in Beijing, China, September 9, 2015. At BMW, where deliveries to dealers in China have grown just 1 percent so far this year, this means putting recruits through sales 'boot camp' and turning experienced staff into spreadsheet wonks. The world's top luxury car maker this month opened its largest Asia training centre in Xi'an in Shaanxi province. It is also rolling out online training phone apps and having in-house trainers at dealerships look after basic skills so training centres can focus on teaching more advanced skills. Training classes have shifted to help dealers identify areas they can change for a quick improvement in results, said BMW's China training chief Xiao Yi. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A dealership sales staff listens to a lecture during a sales camp at BMW Group Training Center in Beijing, China, September 9, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A dealership sales staff does a plank posture as part of the program during a sales camp at BMW Group Training Center in Beijing, China, September 9, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A man talks on his phone near a new residential compound in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, May 11, 2014. (Photo by Jon Woo/Reuters)





An employee stands next to high speed railway model CRH380B trains at a production line of its parts at China CNR's Tangshan Railway Vehicle's factory in Tangshan, Hebei province, in this February 11, 2015 file photo. A unit of China's CRRC Corp, the world's biggest train maker by revenue, on September 17, 2015 agreed a deal to help build a planned high-speed link from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, underlining the rail giant's lofty overseas ambitions. CRRC also last week broke ground on a factory in the United States which will manufacture trains for Boston's subway system as part of a $556 million deal that China CNR, now part of CRRC, won almost a year ago. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A security guard stands next to an advertising board in front of a residential compound under construction in Wuhan, Hubei province in this January 21, 2014 file photo. China's policymakers think they can stem a rapid rundown of their foreign exchange reserves and ease pressure on the currency by pump-priming the economy to meet this year's growth target, sources involved in policy discussions said. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A student dances as she performs for her fellow students while they take a break from their military training in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, September 17, 2015. (Photo by Wong Campion/Reuters)





Soldiers and civilians stand in formation as they attend a memorial ceremony on the 84th anniversary of Japan's invasion of China, at the September 18th History Museum in Shenyang, Liaoning province September 18, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Promotional staff hold banners advertising a new apartment at a property expo in Beijing, China, September 18, 2015. Home prices in China rose for a fourth consecutive month in August, offering hope that the ailing property sector is becoming less of a drag on the slowing economy. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A woman poses for pictures with a performer dressed as a Spartan warrior during a celebration of the one-year anniversary of juice company Juicedaily at a shopping mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, September 19, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A vendor sleeps at a shop in Beijing, in this November 17, 2013 file photo. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are already the heart of China's economy, providing 80 percent of urban employment and 60 percent of GDP. But the country's financial infrastructure is largely geared to state firms. So although China has announced a volley of rate cuts to stabilise its battered stock market and reverse a slowdown in growth, SMEs are experiencing little or no benefit, underlining concerns about the world's second-biggest economy. The central bank has cut official lending rates five times since November 2014 by a total of 1.4 percentage points to 4.6 percent. But instead of falling, lending rates to SMEs have risen by 2 percentage points as willing lenders become scarce. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Actors dressed as Red Army soldiers perform at a gala show to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, in this September 3, 2015 file photo. Bitterness is growing within China's armed forces to President Xi Jinping's decision to cut troop numbers by 300,000 and considerable effort will be needed to overcome opposition to the order, according to a source and commentaries in the military's newspaper. Xi made the unexpected announcement on Sept. 3 at a military parade in Beijing marking 70 years since the end of World War Two in Asia. The move would reduce by 13 percent one of the world's biggest militaries, currently 2.3-million strong. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A pedestrian wearing a mask walks through a crossing on a hazy day in Beijing, China, September 22, 2015. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A woman carrying a shopping bag walks underneath lanterns of a restaurant in a shopping district of Beijing, China, September 22, 2015. Pockets of strength in China's economy should help it achieve Beijing's annual growth target for this year, a research paper issued by the country's top economic planner said on Tuesday. Despite increasing pressure on the economy, modest rises in consumer prices and employment are expected during the remainder of 2015, according to the paper posted on the National Development and Reform Commission's (NDRC) website. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Employees work at a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Shanghai, China, September 16, 2015. China's much-hyped market for vitamins and supplements is facing a steep challenge from traditional remedies from ginseng to deer antler, even as the sector's rise fuels billion-dollar deals and share price surges. The vitamins market is set to expand five percent a year to $20 billion in 2019, half its pace of growth since 2009. It's being outstripped by a traditional medicine business that could be worth $40 billion by then – and is growing twice as fast. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





An employee works at a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Shanghai, China, September 16, 2015. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Contestants participate in an endurance competition by putting one hand on a piece of furniture while standing on one leg, at a furniture department store in Luoyang, Henan province, China, September 19, 2015. The last 10 people who held on for over three hours were each rewarded a piece of furniture, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Uighur women wearing face veils walk on a street in Urumqi September 17, 2013. The custom of women wearing face veils is not a tradition of minority people in China's western area of Xinjiang or in any Muslim country, but is a symbol of extremism and backwardness instead, a senior regional official said on September 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (L) walks towards a Chinese high-speed built train as he visits the Chengdu East Railway Station in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, September 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Pedestrians uses a scarf (L) and a carton box (rear) to shield against rainfall as they walk on a street in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, September 23, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A Han woman walks past Uighur women in Shanghai, in this April 11, 2014 file photo. The custom of women wearing face veils is not a tradition of minority people in China's western area of Xinjiang or in any Muslim country, but is a symbol of extremism and backwardness instead, a senior regional official said on September 24, 2015. Energy-rich Xinjiang, visited this week by British finance minister George Osborne on a rare trip by a Western official, is strategically located on the borders of Central Asia. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





Workers work on an installation in the shape of a giant flower basket to celebrate upcoming National Day, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, September 24, 2015. China will mark the 66th anniversary of its founding on October 1. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Participants try to catch 100 yuan banknotes flying inside a dome during a promotional event of a jewelry store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, September 23, 2015. The contestants were required to catch as many banknotes as they could in 20 seconds, and the winner would be awarded with the money he or she caught, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A boy plays on a disused sofa in the ruins of houses which were pulled down, in central Beijing, China, September 25, 2015. China's economic growth will be largely stable in the third quarter as the impact from a stock market plunge will be limited, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Customers look at a 10-metre-tall installation in the shape of the moon, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, at a department store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, September 26, 2015. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar during a full moon, which falls on September 27 this year. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People watch rescuers try to pull 50-year-old woman Zhao Hongxia out of a well in Xinhu township of Changchun, Jilin province, China, September 24, 2015. Zhao, who suffered from mental illness, was killed after falling into and being stuck in the well at a depth of 13 metres for over five hours. The well was very narrow so rescuers had to excavate a wider opening and dismantle the well piece by piece to reach her, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People watch rescuers try to pull 50-year-old woman Zhao Hongxia out of a well in Xinhu township of Changchun, Jilin province, China, September 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A rescuer attempts to fit into a piece of a well as he and other rescuers try to rescue 50-year-old woman Zhao Hongxia in Xinhu township of Changchun, Jilin province, China, September 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People watch as rescuers use an excavator to lift the body of 50-year-old woman Zhao Hongxia after she was pulled out of a well in Xinhu township of Changchun, Jilin province, China, September 24, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Tourists gather on Qiantang River bank to see the soaring tide in Haining, Zhejiang province, September 27, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Villagers place persimmons in the shape of a Chinese national flag, ahead of China's upcoming National Day, in Shangrao, Jiangxi province, September 29, 2015. October 1 is China's National Day. This year, it marks the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Attendants prepare for a reception marking China's 66th National Day at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing September 30, 2015. China celebrates its National Day on October 1. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A Chinese worker puts a head on a doll at a toy factory on September 17, 2015 in Xietang, Zhejiang Province, China. Many of the toy factories in the area have seen a sharp decrease in orders from Europe and Latin America in 2015, with many saying that a decline in Russia's currency and inflation in South America being the main reason. Data showing a steady decline in China's manufacturing activity continue to feed concerns the world's second largest economy has lost momentum. Global unease has triggered volatility on stock markets and underpinned weaker economic data in countries dependent on China's growth. In a bid to shore up prospects, China's government has attempted to shift its economy away from traditional manufacturing to the service sector and domestic consumption. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





A picture made available on 23 September 2015 shows a Chinese taxi driver putting up the “for hire” sign in his taxi outside a train station in Beijing, China, 17 September 2015. With almost 20 million cars sold last year, China is the largest passenger cars market in the world and chronic traffic congestions in many of its cities like Beijing is one of the reasons why taxi and car hailing smartphone apps offered by Didi Kuaidi and Uber Technologies Inc. are widely popular with commuters. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





Freshmen in Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management head bottles of mineral water for upright stand during military training on September 17, 2015 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. More than 6,800 freshmen in the school are required to take part in the military training. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)





In this July 29, 2015 photo, workers assemble shoes in a shoe factory in Yongjia county in eastern China's Zhejiang province. The Caixin preliminary survey of factory purchasing managers released Wednesday, September 23, 2015, showed that Chinese manufacturing activity fell to its lowest level in over 6 years, in the latest sign of the deepening slowdown in the world's second biggest economy. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A man hangs Chinese national flags as decorations at a park, ahead of China's National Day, in Beijing September 29, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A visitor walks through a narrow lane in Sanhe Town of Feixi County, east China's Anhui Province, September 17, 2015. Sanhe, an ancient town with a history of more than 2,500 years, has some 180 ancient buildings of Ming or Qing dynasties. Ancient streets, lanes, bridges, temples, drama stages, civilian houses or tearooms here attracted a large number of tourists from home and abroad. (Photo by Tao Ming/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)





To go with feature story Lifestyle-China-IT-Internet-games by Joelle Garrus A young man plays the online game at a internet cafe in Beijing on February 27, 2010. At one of Beijing's many Internet cafes, near-silence reigns: headphones on, eyes glued to the screen, web users play games online en masse, helping to make China one of the industry's top markets. (Photo by Liu Jin/AFP Photo)





A worker shines red lanterns with the word “Chinese Dream” painted on at a lantern industrial park, September 19, 2015, in Yuncheng, China. Hundreds of workers made red lanterns in west China's Shanxi Province to welcome the upcoming “National Day” which will fall on October 1st. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)





Migrant workers ride on a tricycle past a crossing in Beijing, China, September 22, 2015. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)