Aerial view of farmers harvesting cress by ship at an ecological floating island on February 17, 2023 in Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





People wearing face masks walk under fish shaped lanterns on display in a green space in Beijing, Monday, February 20, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People jump cross the bonfire on February 28, 2023 in Jieyang,Guangdong Province of China.The citizens held a fire jumping activity to pray for the elimination of bad luck. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Police officers comb through garbage, searching for the remains of murdered model and influencer Abby Choi in a landfill site in Hong Kong, China, 28 February 2023. Choi's gruesome murder came to light last week after police found two severed legs, believed to be hers, inside a flat, followed by a skull and several ribs discovered in a large soup pot seized from the property. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A child plays with himself in between the cupid statues on display inside a shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks walk past rows of lanterns at a tourist shopping street in Beijing, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





People cross a street near office towers in the Lujiazui financial district, ahead of the National People's Congress (NPC), in Shanghai, China on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A woman wearing traditional clothes walks past the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask is reflected on a window panel as she walks by a fashion boutique selling Chinese traditional costumes at a tourist shopping street in Beijing, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Chinese leader Xi Jinping's agenda for the annual meeting of the ceremonial legislature: Revive the struggling economy by encouraging consumers to spend now that severe anti-virus controls have ended. Install a government of Xi loyalists to intensify the ruling Communist Party's control over the economy and society. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman wearing traditional clothes walks to the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on March 1, 2023 shows a man putting on a performce with fire amid a show rooted in ancient traditions to ward off bad luck and to bring along good fortune in Pan'An County, Jinhua city, in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Residents, some wearing face masks, practice a social dance with their companion at a public park in Beijing Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A medical worker in protective gear waits to administer COVID-19 tests for reporters who was signed up to cover the press conference and the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), at a quarantine hotel in Beijing, Thursday, March 2, 2023. The annual meeting of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislative body, kicks off in Beijing on Sunday. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This photo taken on March 2, 2023 shows an aerial view of residental buildings in Haikou, in China's southern Hainan province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A building is seen on fire in Hong Kong, China on March 3, 2023. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





A building is seen on fire in Hong Kong, China on March 3, 2023. A fire tore through the upper floors of an under-construction skyscraper in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong in the early hours of Friday. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Residents and others look on as a fire burns at a construction site in Hong Kong, Friday, March 3, 2023. The fire erupted at the site of The Mariners’ Club redevelopment project in the densely populated Tsim Sha Tsui district at about 11 p.m. on Thursday night. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A soldier dressed as an usher stands guard at an entrance door of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, March 3, 2023. The installation of new leaders and the need to shore up a flagging economy will dominate the annual session of China's rubber-stamp parliament that kicks off this Sunday. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Bus hostesses adjusts their hair before photos outside the Great Hall of the People the eve of the opening session of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Saturday, March 4, 2023. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Commuters order food from a takeaway shop during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Monday, March 6, 2023. Chinese economic officials expressed confidence Monday they can meet this year’s growth target of “around 5%” by generating 12 million new jobs and encouraging consumer spending following the end of anti-virus controls that kept millions of people at home. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)