Visitors take photos at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China, on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. China's deflation was driven by falling prices in its manufacturing sector last year, fresh data showed on Thursday, adding to the risk of trade tensions with the US and Europe amid a major ramp-up in Chinese industrial capacity. (Photo by Andrea Verdelli/Bloomberg)





Fishermen show harvested fish during winter fishing season in Bosten Lake on January 20, 2024 in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Nian Lei/VCG via Getty Images)





Rescue workers search for missing victims at a landslide site, a day after a landslide hits Liangshui village in Zhaotong, in southwestern China's Yunnan province on January 23, 2024. (Photo by CNS/AFP Photo)





Men gather near a fire at a checkpoint into Wushi county in China's western Xinjiang region on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. A massive earthquake has struck a sparsely populated part of China's western Xinjiang region, killing a few and damaging or collapsing more than 120 homes in freezing cold weather. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Rescue workers prepare to board a flight to Aksu, Xinjiang from Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. An earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring people and damaging or collapsing scores of homes in freezing cold weather, authorities said. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A Lijian-1 Y3 carrier rocket carrying five satellites blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, January 23, 2024. China on Tuesday launched the Lijian-1 Y3 carrier rocket with five satellites onboard. The rocket blasted off at 12:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, and sent a group of satellites into the planned orbits. This launch marks the third flight mission of the Lijian-1 carrier rocket series. (Photo by Wang Heng/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)





Workers deliver supplies to a shelter at the Yamansu township of Uchturpan county, Aksu prefecture in western China's Xinjiang region, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. As aftershocks continued to rock western China on Wednesday, thousands of people were staying in tents and other shelters, lighting bonfires to fend off the freezing weather. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Villagers hang noodles out to dry in a field as they prepare for upcoming Lunar New Year markets in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on January 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





High speed trains are lined up after undergoing maintenance in preparation for the annual Lunar New Year travel peak, at a maintenance base in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province early on January 26, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A villager pins a flowery headwear for a tourist at Xunpu Village on January 27, 2024 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China. Xunpu flowery headwear, dubbed 'overhead gardens', have been a signature of “Xunpu Women Customs” listed as a national intangible heritage in 2008. They attracted millions of eyes in the cyber world in early 2023, followed by a sustainable tourist boom in the village, where visitors are able to literally fit their heads in them. (Photo by Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





A child ice skates on a frozen river in Beijing on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





The photo taken on January 28, 2024 shows a worker producing red lanterns for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People in traditional Chinese costumes attend a parade to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Dragon on January 28, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. The Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on February 10 this year. (Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





A man stands near escalators blocked off at a partially shuttered Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing, Monday, January 29, 2024. Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group on Monday was ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court, after the firm was unable to reach a restructuring deal with creditors. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





People check decorations at a shop ahead of the Lunar New Year in Haian, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on January 29, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A drone photo taken on January 29, 2024 shows farmers pollinating cherry blossoms at a greenhouse in Ciyutuo Town of Luanzhou, north China's Hebei Province. In recent years, Luanzhou City has vigorously integrated cooperatives, planting bases and households to develop large-scale and standardized greenhouse planting of cherries, cucumbers, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables in an effort to increase farmers' income. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk past lanterns ahead of the Lunar New Year in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on January 30, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Workers put up decorations ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, at a park in Beijing, China on January 30, 2024. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





A pastry chef makes decorated steamed buns (aka Huamo) at a pastry store ahead of the Year of the Dragon on January 30, 2024 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A teacher of Peking Opera is putting makeup on a child during a Peking Opera performance in Hai'an, China, on January 30, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)