A rider passes by an abandoned construction project on the outskirts of Beijing, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Chinese women take part in plaza dancing, a popular pastime for retirees in Beijing, Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





This photo shows an aerial view of farmers harvesting gorgon fruit in a pond in Taizhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on August 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A farmer dries harvested corn and chilli peppers at a village in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality on August 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A woman reacts to tortoises on sale on the street in Beijing, Thursday, August 8, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Visitors to a mall look at an exhibition depicting chimpanzees in space suits playing a board game in Beijing, Thursday, August 8, 2024. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





An unmanned cargo aircraft developed by Sichuan Tengden Sci-tech Innovation Co. takes part in a maiden flight at an airport in Zigong, Sichuan province, China on August 11, 2024. (Photo by China Daily via Reuters)





A waitress wearing bathrobe walks by mannequins at a restaurant setup as a bathing center at an old Beijing's hutong alley inside a shopping mall in Beijing, Sunday, August 11, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Fireworks light up the night sky over a sculpture featuring two hands holding beer glasses at the Golden Sand Beach during the carnival night of the 34th Qingdao International Beer Festival on August 11, 2024 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. The 34th Qingdao International Beer Festival on August 11. (Photo by Yang Xuemei/VCG via Getty Images)





Aerial view of an employee arranging slabs to dry at a wood processing base on August 12, 2024 in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province of China. (Photo by Deng Heping/VCG via Getty Images)





Bullet trains are seen parked at Nanjing south railway station in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on August 13, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Workers collect freshly picked marigold flowers for sale on August 13, 2024 in Qujing, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by Wang Yong/VCG via Getty Images)





Tourists enjoy wave-like landscape of Danxia landform at Bolang Valley, or the Wavy Valley, on August 13, 2024 in Jingbian Couty, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province of China. (Photo by Liang Shengren/VCG via Getty Images)





Tourists watch roaring torrent carrying a large amount of yellow sediment at the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River on August 15, 2024 in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Students take part in a quilt-folding competition during a military-style training on the sports field of a senior high school in Dongyang, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on August 15, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





The remains of a 3.5 meters tall, 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth is seen on display in Hong Kong on August 15, 2024, the first-ever public display of a mammoth skeleton of this scale in the city. This rare woolly mammoth skeleton is being shown as part of the relocation of Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong. (Photo by Peter Park/AFP Photo)





Giant panda Mang Cancan and his mother Mang Zai drive a car at Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China, on August 18, 2024. (Photo by CFOTO/Sipa USA via Alamy Live News)





Water lanterns are released on a river to honor ancestors and pray for blessings during the Zhongyuan Festival, the Hungry Ghost Festival, on August 18, 2024 in Qionghai, Hainan Province of China. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/VCG via Getty Images)





A woman burns offerings for her dead ancestors on a street during the Hungry Ghost Festival in Beijing on August 18, 2024. The festival is celebrated in the seventh lunar month of the lunar new year calendar among communities in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, marks the belief that the “Gates of Hell” are opened to let out the hungry ghosts who then wander in the land of the living while foraging for food. During the festival food offerings are made while paper money and joss sticks are burnt outside homes to keep the spirits of dead ancestors happy and to bring good luck. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Humanoid robots are pictured during the World Robot Conference 2024 in Beijing, capital of China, August 21, 2024. The World Robot Conference 2024 opened here on Wednesday. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)