A high speed train moves past rows of dead peach trees killed by recent flood waters in Huangtugang village in central China's Henan province on Saturday, October 23, 2021. The flooding disaster in July is the worst that older farmers can remember in 40 years – but it is also a preview of the kind of extreme conditions the country is likely to face as the planet warms up, and weather patterns farmers depend upon are increasingly destabilized. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up to receive booster shots against COVID-19 at a vaccination site displaying a poster baring the words: “Epidemic protection” in Beijing, Monday, October 25, 2021. A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism closed all tourist sites Monday after finding new COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Vendors sell Welsh onion in Shenyang, in China's northeastern Liaoning province on October 25, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A drone sprays disinfectant over volunteers disinfecting a school following local cases of the coronavirus in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China on October 27, 2021. (Photo by China Daily via Reuters)





Customers are seen browsing for Halloween pumpkin ornaments at a stall days before Halloween in Hong Kong on October 25, 2021. (Photo by Miguel Candela/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Dancers perform in front of the countdown clock showing 100 days until the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, at the Olympic Park in Beijing on October 27, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





Aerial view of tea plantations on Qiandao Lake at Chun'an County on October 26, 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Yang Bo/VCG via Getty Images)





A pregnant woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus uses her smartphone as she sunbathes next to the steel frames at a construction site in Beijing, Wednesday, October 27, 2021. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Workers wearing face masks and shields to help curb the spread of the coronavirus wait for visitors outside a museum in Beijing, Thursday, October 28, 2021. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker disinfects a residential area in Dalai Hubu Township in Ejina Banner of Alxa League, in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Wednesday, October 27, 2021. More than 2,000 tourists visiting China's Inner Mongolia region have been sent to hotels to undergo two weeks of quarantine following the detection of new cases of COVID-19 in the area. (Photo by Bei He/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks through a line of masked service sector women waiting to receive a swab for the COVID-19 test during a mass testing in Beijing, Friday, October 29, 2021, following a spike of the coronavirus in the capital and other provincials. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Medical staff take a swab sample from a child to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Ganzhou District in Zhangye, in China's northwest Gansu province early on October 29, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Photography enthusiasts take pictures of the setting sun over Hong Kong island in Hong Kong, China, 31 October 2021. October is month conducive to outdoor activities as the temperature averages between 19 to 28 degree Celsius and the humidity is low. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Visitors gather to wait for their COVID-19 tests at the Shanghai Disney Resort in Shanghai, China on Sunday, October 31, 2021. Fireworks boomed as the visitors at Shanghai Disneyland waited for their COVID-19 test results, surrounded by healthcare workers dressed from head to toe in the white protective suits. Shanghai Disneyland suddenly announced Sunday evening that they were no longer accepting any visitors and they were cooperating with an epidemiological investigation from another province. They then locked down the park, as Shanghai city healthcare workers and police rushed to the scene to conduct a mass testing. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





This aerial picture shows tour buses stored in a parking lot in Hong Kong on November 1, 2021, as strict Covid-19 measures keep tourists away from the city impacting the tourism sector. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





Aerial photo taken on November 1, 2021 shows the autumn scenery at a scenic area in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This aerial photo taken on November 1, 2021 shows volunteers helping farmers harvest rice in Huzhuang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





An employee attends to a customer at a supermarket in Beijing, China, Wednesday, November 3, 2021. A recent seemingly innocuous government recommendation for Chinese people to store necessities for an emergency quickly sparked scattered instances of panic-buying and online speculation of imminent war with Taiwan. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Giant pandas are playing and foraging inside the Shenshuping base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve on November 3, 2021 in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province of China. Shenshuping base sits in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture and is committed to the panda's breeding and reproduction. It is the largest conservation and research center for giant pandas along with the bases in Dujiangyan and Ya'an cities in Sichuan. (Photo by An Yuan/China News Service via Getty Images)