An employee assembles an electric car along a production line at a factory in Qingzhou, Shandong province, China, October 31, 2015. China's factory activity fell for an eighth straight month in October but at a slower pace as export orders flickered into life, a private survey showed on Monday. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A winter swimmer jumps into icy water after breaking part of the frozen surface of the Amur river, in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, China, November 1, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A member of a robotic team operates a quadruped robot walking on the tracks of a playground during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance covered by a quadruped robot, at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications in Chongqing, China, November 1, 2015. The robot kept walking for 134.03 kilometers (83 miles) and successfully broke the record. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Boats travel in the sea as workers install components on electricity cables between pylons on an island in Daishan county, Zhejiang province, China, November 2, 2015. China is firmly committed to restructuring and reforms and consumption has "a lot of room" to grow, Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday, dismissing concerns that the economy may be at risk of a hard landing. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Young students and their parents wearing masks walk along a street on a hazy day in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, November 3, 2015. Some kindergartens and schools were closed as severe air pollution hit northeastern Chinese city of Harbin on Tuesday, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman wearing a mask poses for a selfie with her mobile phone on the square in front of Harbin's landmark San Sophia church, on a hazy day in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, November 3, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People take pictures and videos as the first C919 passenger jet made by the Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac) is pulled out from behind a curtain during a news conference at the company's factory in Shanghai, November 2, 2015. Comac rolled out China's first homemade 158-seated C919 narrow body jet, which is meant to rival similar models from Airbus Group and Boeing Co. State television also showed footage of the aircraft rolling off the assembly line in Comac's Shanghai factory. In a statement, the company said it had already received 517 orders for the aircraft mainly from domestic firms. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Richard Liu, CEO and founder of China's e-commerce company JD.com, rides an electric tricycle as he leaves a delivery station to deliver goods for customers to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the company, in Beijing, in this June 16, 2014 file photo. China's second-largest e-commerce company JD.com Inc said it has sent a letter of complaint to a Chinese antitrust regulator and formally requested an investigation into rival Alibaba Group Holding. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





People walk across a street during the first snow of the winter in Beijing, November 6, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A man clears rubbish at a closed market near the Central Business District (CBD) area, outside a construction site in Beijing, China, October 26, 2015. A slowdown in China is forcing multinational companies to treat the world's second-biggest economy more like a developed market, turning away from a headlong dash for growth to focus on premium businesses, or improving productivity by investing in staff. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A woman works at a conveyor belt carrying eggs to packaging at Deqingyuan ecological farm on the outskirts of Beijing, China, September 10, 2015. Picture taken on September 10, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





A farmer ploughs terraced crop fields in Congjiang county, Guizhou province in this April 8, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A couple ride a motorcycle along a street during snow in Altay, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, November 8, 2015. Picture taken November 8, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman wearing a mask walks outside the old palace museum on a hazy day in Shenyang, Liaoning province, November 8, 2015. As winter heating started in the city, the reading of PM2.5 was more than 1000 micrograms per cubic metre on Sunday, according to local media. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Members of the Miao ethnic group wearing ceremonial costumes take part in a parade during the traditional Lusheng (reed-pipe wind instrument) Festival in Gulong, Guizhou province, November 8, 2015. During the festival, Miao people make friends through singing and dancing. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Members of the Miao ethnic group wearing ceremonial costumes take part in a parade during the traditional Lusheng (reed-pipe wind instrument) Festival in Gulong, Guizhou province, November 8, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Chinese national flag flutters at a steel factory in Tangshan in China's Hebei Province November 3, 2015. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





People wearing masks do morning exercises during a hazy day in Jinan, Shandong province, China, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Suspects involved in telecom fraud walk off a plane after being repatriated from overseas, at an airport in Beijing, China, November 10, 2015. Around 254 suspects were escorted back to China on Tuesday from Indonesia and Cambodia, according to local media. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Suspects involved in telecom fraud walk off a plane after being repatriated from overseas, at an airport in Shanghai, China, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Students perform during a founding ceremony of a football team of Shaolin Tagou martial arts school, in Dengfeng, Henan province, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Students perform during a founding ceremony of a football team of Shaolin Tagou martial arts school, in Dengfeng, Henan province, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Students perform during a founding ceremony of a football team of Shaolin Tagou martial arts school, in Dengfeng, Henan province, November 10, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A woman takes pictures of new 100 yuan banknotes she withdrew from a bank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, November 12, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Primary school students exercise inside a classroom on a hazy day in Jinan, Shandong province, China, November 12, 2015. Most outdoor activities were banned for students due to yellow alert of smog in Jinan on Thursday, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A woman wearing a mask is pictured on a road in Beijing, China, November 13, 2015. Beijing will experience poor air quality for five days partly caused by heating systems being turned on, officials announced on Tuesday, according to Xinhua News Agency. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





School children wearing masks leave school early at noon due to heavy air pollution, at a primary school in Shenyang, Liaoning province, November 13, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





School children wearing masks leave school early at noon due to heavy air pollution, at a primary school in Shenyang, Liaoning province, November 13, 2015. According to Xinhua News Agency, lingering smog has disrupted traffic in northeast China's Liaoning Province, closing highways and delaying trains. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Women wear face masks on the fourth green during the third round of the BMW Masters 2015 golf tournament at Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai, China, November 14, 2015. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A worker walks between two bullet trains at a high speed railway maintenance station in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, in this September 10, 2015 file photo. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





An aerial view shows a new section of the Sanyuan Bridge, part of Beijing's Third Ring Road, on a hazy day in Beijing, China, November 15, 2015. Beijing road maintenance workers started dismantling a 31-year-old bridge on Friday night and replacing it with a new one. The project was scheduled to finished within 24 hours, but was postponed till Sunday due to the poor conditions of the old bridge, local media reported. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Residents ride a motorcycle along a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, November 14, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Workers unload boxes and parcels off a truck at a sorting centre of Shentong (STO) Express delivery company, after the Singles Day online shopping festival, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, November 15, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Li Yongzhi, 54-year-old former migrant worker, inspects a stock of chillis for a vendor at a market in Longhu township, Henan province, China, November 13, 2015. (Photo by Joseph Campbell/Reuters)





Li Yongzhi, 54-year-old former migrant worker, eats a bowl of dried chilli pepper at breakfast at his home in Shawoli village of Longhu township, Henan province, China, November 12, 2015. (Photo by Joseph Campbell/Reuters)





A Tibetan women spins a prayer wheel at Buddhist Sera monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China November 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Students work on an improvised car assembly line as a group of foreign reporters visits a vocational school on a government organised tour in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, November 19, 2015. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)





Police officers take aim with their weapons at a man playing the role of an attacker during an anti-terrorism drill at a railway station in Zhengzhou, in this May 7, 2014 file picture. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Members of the Snow Leopard Commando Unit rescue hostages from a bus which was hijacked by mock terrorists as they participate in an anti-terrorist drill in Beijing, in this May 29, 2014 file picture. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A high-speed train leaves a station in Yichang, Hubei province, November 20, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





A Chinese woman wearing a mask is reflected in a glass panel on a smoggy day in Beijing, China, 11 November 2015. Beijing's Environmental Protection Bureau warned of poor air quality that could continue in the coming days. Heavy smog of hazardous levels had affected China's north and northeast regions beginning 08 November. (Photo by How Hwee Young/EPA)





A woman wearing a face mask checks her mobile phone amid a heavy haze in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning province Sunday, November 8, 2015. Air quality reached extremely hazardous levels in the northeastern city of Shenyang on Sunday, as northern China began to burn coal to heat homes for winter. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)