Gym owner Xie Lili (R) coaches a female member during a fitness boxing session at the Nan Boxing Gym in Beijing, China on February 28, 2024. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)





The opening meeting of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Liu Weibing/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)





A group of attendants pose for pictures in front of the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Chinese Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons towards a Philippine resupply vessel Unaizah May 4 on its way to a resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Adrian Portugal/Reuters)





A tourist poses for a photo with blooming bougainvillea flowers on March 5, 2024 in Huizhou, Guangdong Province of China on March 5, 2024. (Photo by Zhou Nan/VCG via Getty Images)





Aerial photo shows workers harvesting the sea belt in Rongcheng City, east China's Shandong Province, on March 7, 2024. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A woman dressed in a mermaid swims in a partly frozen lake in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province on March 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Chinese journalists mob a foreign journalist at the end of the Chinese Foreign Minister's press conference on the sideline of the National People's Congress in Beijing, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





People peek through a curtain leading to the main hall where delegates attend the second plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 7, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)





A worker hauls a stack of chairs after the Jiangsu province delegation meeting at the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 7, 2024. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





Workers are seen on a rooftop of a residential building under construction in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on March 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





An attendant cleans before the second plenary session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Former NBA player and NPC delegate Yao Ming, center, walks with others as he leaves the second plenary session of the National Peoples Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 8, 2024 in Beijing, China. China's annual political gathering known as the Two Sessions convenes leaders and lawmakers to set the government's agenda for domestic economic and social development for the year. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





A tourist wearing Hanfu, a style of clothing traditionally worn by the Han people, poses for a photo with blooming cherry blossoms on International Women's Day on March 8, 2024 in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Attendants carry flasks of hot tea for Chinese leaders before the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





Chinese President Xi Jinping, rear, reacts after drinking from a cup at the closing session of the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Aerial view of primary school students performing dragon dance to celebrate the “Er Yue Er” Festival, or Dragon-Head-Raising Festival, on March 11, 2024 in Xiangyang, Hubei Province of China. The festival falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year. (Photo by Yang Dong/VCG via Getty Images)





A worker checks the growth of seedlings at an intelligent seedling breeding base in Shuangxing Village of Xianlong Town, southwest China's Chongqing, March 12, 2024. With a total area of 4,608 square meters, the intelligent seedling breeding base yields 12,000 mu (about 800 hectares) of rice seedlings per year. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Firefighters work the scene of an explosion in Sanhe city in northern China’s Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Rescuers were responding to a suspected gas leak explosion Wednesday in a building in northern China, authorities said. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Workers clean up debris on the ground near the site of a restaurant explosion in Sanhe, Hebei province, China on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)