A cat hides behind a board during the Beijing International Pet Supplies Exhibition 2025 (Pet Fair Beijing) in Beijing on February 27, 2025. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





The photo taken on March 1, 2025 shows people visiting plum blossoms at a wetland park in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A couple walk up to a viewer platform set up at a hotel and cafe restaurant against the capital city old-style courtyard houses, in Beijing, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Hostesses fill up tea cups for the leaders before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A hostess closes a curtain at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Delegates leave after a closed-door National People's Congress preparatory session for the third session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A general view shows buildings in Yuzhong district in Chongqing in southwestern China's on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Héctor Retamal/AFP Photo)





A group of Chinese hostesses walk during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Tiananmen square in Beijing on March 5, 2025. (Photo by WANG Zhao/AFP Photo)





Xiong, a 69 year-old farmer, exits the subway train station to sell vegetables in southwestern China's Chongqing on March 5, 2025. Elderly Chinese farmers carrying enormous baskets of vegetables squeezed into a subway station as its doors opened before dawn on March 5, on the outskirts of megacity Chongqing. As the economy took centre stage at a key political meeting in the capital thousands of kilometres away, the pensioners went about their daily rush into the city centre to sell chives, lettuce and goose eggs for meagre earnings. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Rime-covered rock pillars stretch up endlessly to the sky at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park on March 6, 2025 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province of China. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, part of the Wulingyuan scenic area, is famed for its towering quartz sandstone pillars, and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Photo by Deng Daoli/VCG via Getty Images)





Aerial view of a ribbon-like walkway at Dongsha Lake Ecological Park on March 9, 2025 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Attendants make preparations before the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





A Chinese military band conductor leads the band at the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Military band members rehearse before the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





Delegates leave the Great Hall of the People after attending the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





An aerial view shows residential buildings shrouded in fog in Lianyungang, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on March 12, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Huang Yulong's sculptures stand as part of the “UPWARD – Huang Yulong” exhibition presented by Ora-Ora and Great Entertainment Group at Hong Kong Observation Wheel on March 12, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)





This photograph taken with a tilt and shift lens shows a figurine placed underneath a bonsai tree displayed at a floral exhibition in Hong Kong on March 14, 2025. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





Chinese takes selfies beneath blooming plum trees at a public park in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Photo by Vincent Thian/AP Photo)