A boat is stranded on Poyang Lake in Lushan City, China during low-water season on November 3, 2016. (Photo by Xinhua/Barcroft Images)





Chinese women training to be qualified nannies, known in China as ayis, learn techniqiues with plastic babies at the Ayi University on October 20, 2016 in Beijing, China. The Ayi University training program teaches childcare, early education, housekeeping, and other domestic skills. The eight-day course costs US $250, and provides successful participants with a certificate to present to prospective employers. Most of the women attending the program are migrants from villages and cities across China who have moved to the capital to earn income to send home to their own families. China's burgeoning middle class has boosted demand for domestic help in urban areas, and the need for qualified childcare is expected to grow. In 2015, the government dismantled its controversial 'one child policy' as a means of rebalancing China's aging population in order to stave off a demographic crisis. Couples are now allowed to have two children, though the availability and cost of quality childcare is cited as an obstacle for many middle class parents who want larger families. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





French hair dresser Eric Constantino (R ) washes his staff's hair during a demonstration at a photo opportunity at his shop in Beijing April 24, 2013. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Visitors try virtual reality devices at China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou, China October 16, 2016. (Photo by Clare Jim/Reuters)





Exhibitors sit in front of an ice cream machinery exhibited at China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou, China October 16, 2016. (Photo by Clare Jim/Reuters)





Farmers collect corn for a cargo at a farm in Gaocheng, Hebei province, China, in this September 30, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Labourers work at a construction site in Beijing's Central Business District (CBD) area, China, October 19, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A poster bearing a picture of the Central Business District (CBD) area is seen outside a construction site in Beijing, China, October 19, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A woman wearing a mask cycles on a hazy day in Beijing, China October 19, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Students pose for pictures as they use ofo sharing bicycles at a campus in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, September 6, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A man holds an umbrella against wind brought by Typhoon Haima in Shenzhen, China, October 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Waves triggered by Typhoon Haima crash against the shore in Shenzhen, China, October 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Police officers clear fallen trees from the road after Typhoon Haima hit Shenzhen, China, October 21, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A local resident, who identifies herself by the pseudonym Huan Ying returns to Vanke Harbor city, where she was living next to the site of the explosions on August 12, 2015, at the Binhai new district, Tianjin, China, August 9, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A woman takes a picture from her mobile phone near Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Police check tourists outside a security check entrance to Tiananmen Square on the first day of a plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A police dog works next to Tiananmen Square on the first day of a plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A man stands next to paramilitary police officers near Tiananmen Square on the first day of a plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A policeman (R) and his assistant stand guard in an underground passage near Tiananmen Square on the first day of a plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Men walk along a red wall near Tiananmen Gate on the first day of a plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in Beijing, China, October 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A man takes a nap on his electric bicycle at a street in Shanghai, China October 24, 2016. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A boy rides along a road in thick fog in Liaocheng, Shandong province, China, October 25, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A man walks past a poster about the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) featuring a portrait of President Xi Jinping on the second day of plenary sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing, China, October 25, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man unloads parcels from a vehicle of the ZTO Express delivery service near the Central Business District in Beijing, China, October 27, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man with a bicycle walks past a building covered in posters of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Shanghai, China, March 26, 2016. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





People cross a street beside posters depicting late Chairman Mao Zedong (R) and China's President Xi Jinping in Shanghai, China March 1, 2016. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A woman dries persimmons at a workshop in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, China October 27, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People catch ducks during a local game in Wuyi, Zhejiang Province, China, October 30, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Students participate in a fine arts exam in Wuhan, Hebei Province, China, October 30, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Workers build a wooden scaffolding outside the headquarters of the Bank of China in Beijing, China, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman looks at a contortionist as he performs in a shopping street in Beijing, China, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A paramilitary policeman keeps watch outside a shopping centre in an upscale shopping street in Beijing, China, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman dresses a mannequin in a shop window in Beijing, China, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man holds his pet dog on a street in Shanghai, China November 2, 2016. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A model of a widebody jet, which is planned to be developed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is presented at an air show, the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China, November 2, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Employees set up model apartments as they prepare a real estate exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province May 17, 2012. (Photo by Lang Lang/Reuters)





Alibaba staff dry quilts for company employees to rest in prepapration for the upcoming 11.11 global shopping festival, also called Singles' Day shopping festival, in a yard of Xixi campus of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China November 3, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Quilts for Alibaba Group's employees to rest as they prepare for the upcoming 11.11 global shopping festival, also called Singles' Day shopping festival, are dried in a yard of Xixi campus of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China November 3, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A worker sits on top of sacks with construction material, outside a construction site in Beijing, China, November 3, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hundreds of beehives hang from a cliff on Guanmen mountain on October 25, 2016, where Chinese beekeepers are trying to help increase the population of wild bees. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People of Qiang ethnic group gather to sing folk songs during the celebration of their new year in Seba Village of Maoxian County, southwest China's Sichuan Province on October 31, 2016. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Women in traditional dress stand on a knot-shaped pedestrian bridge in Changsha, China on October 24, 2016. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Chinese women of Miao ethnic minority dressed in traditional silver-decorated clothes and headwears take part in a celebration for the Miao Lusheng Festival in Gulong town, Huangping county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou province on October 27, 2016. The Miao Lusheng Festival is the most ceremonious traditional festival celebrated on the grandest scale in Zhouxi, Kaili City, and Gulong town in Huangping county. Hundreds and thousands of Miao girls wearing silver-decorated clothes and head ornaments dance together to the rhythms, forming one circle after another together on the lusheng playing ground. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Thick fog hits Liaocheng, east China's Shandong Province, October 18th, 2016, exerting negative impact on public transportation in Liaocheng. (Photo by SIPA Asia)