Armed police carry a log during a drill amid the scorching summer heat on July 30, 2019 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Meng Delong/VCG via Getty Images)





People practise tai chi in Taicang City, China on August 6, 2019. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media)





This aerial photo taken on July 29, 2019 shows people walking on a bridge with torches as they celebrate the torch festival in Bijie, China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





People cool off at the Longquan Dam near Ningbo, China in high temperatures on July 23, 2019. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media)





A woman walks past an entertainment robot by Chinese tech firm Sogou during the China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference, known as ChinaJoy, in Shanghai on August 2, 2019. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Shaolin students perform martial arts or kungfu on the rooftop of a building during a general assembly to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on the Songshan Mountain (Mount Songshan or Song Mountain) in Dengfeng city, Zhengzhou city, central China's Henan province, 13 July 2019. (Photo by Li Jianan/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)





Fishing boats depart for fishing on August 1, 2019 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. Over 3,000 fishing boats set sail for fishing after the three-month fishing ban on the East China Sea. (Photo by Hu Sheyou/VCG via Getty Images)





People interact with one of the pieces on display at an exhibition by Argentina artist Leandro Erlich entitled “The Confines of the Great Void” at the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing on July 23, 2019. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A member of an honor guard gestures to the photographer to stop taking photos prior to a welcome ceremony for Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, 31 July 2019. Colombian President Ivan Duque Marquez is on a state visit to China from 28 July to 31 July 2019. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/EPA/EFE)





A cordyceps picker shows his cordyceps on a mountain in the Amne Machin range in China's western Qinghai province, June 8, 2019. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A rider performs horsemanship during a horse racing festival in Litang County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, July 30, 2019. (Photo by Jiang Hongjing/Xinhua News Agency/Alamy Live News)





Actors perform during the opening ceremony of the 4th Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo and the 9th Dunhuang Tour-Silk Road International Tourism Festival in Hezuo, northwest China's Gansu Province, July 30, 2019. The expo and the festival kicked off here on Tuesday, aiming to promote cooperation and exchange among countries and regions along the silk road. (Photo by UPI/Barcroft Media)





Tibetan people perform to celebrate the opening ceremony of the annual Qinghai Yushu Horse Racing Festival on July 25, 2019 in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province of China. The Qinghai Yushu Horse Racing Festival is held on July 25-29 this year in Yushu. (Photo by Feng Jiangjiang/VCG via Getty Images)





Rescue workers wade through flood waters as they evacuate a woman with an inflatable swimming pool on a street following heavy rainfall in Pingxiang, Jiangxi province, China on July 10, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





A villager sits on a stool inside a tyre as he rows himself on a flooded field along a river following heavy rainfall in Longtou village, Hengyang, Hunan province, China on July 10, 2019. (Photo by Yang Huafeng/CNS via Reuters)





Tea leaves are left to dry at a tea plantation at a mountain village in Nannuoshan in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, July 12, 2019. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A girl dressed in a Han-dynasty costume dances at an event celebrating the Qixi festival, the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day, at a park in Beijing, China, August 7, 2019. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





Horses run on the grassland of Ujimqin in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China on July 21, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Members of a military honour guard prepare before a welcoming ceremony for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





A performer suspended above a giant pot throws rice noodles into it at a theme park in Guilin, a city famous for its rice noodles, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China on July 24, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Tourists walk on the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge over the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon at Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area in Zhangjiajie city, central China's Hunan province, 27 July 2019. (Photo by Imaginechina via AP Images)





People maintain the Cellared Qing Ke beer in Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, China on August 6, 2019. (Photo by Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





Farmers harvesting gorgon fruit in Lujiang Anhui, China on July 28, 2019. (Photo by Zuma Press/Eyevin)





People enjoy themselves at a swimming pool to beat the heat on August 3, 2019 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Models wearing facekinis, popular with female bathers who want to protect more than just their modesty, pose for a picture on a beach on August 5, 2019 in the Chinese seaside city of Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Xu Chongde/VCG via Getty Images)