A firefighter helps a boy stranded in debris following a landslide in Xuyong county, Sichuan province, China December 9, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





People attend a memorial ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre on the National Memorial Day in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China December 13, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Tour guides in replica red army uniforms are seen at a “red tourism” site featuring Chinese Communism, in Shazhou village, Rucheng county, Hunan province, China December 3, 2018. (Photo by Shu Zhang/Reuters)





Cars are seen following snowfall at a car park in Yantai, Shandong province, China December 11, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Students prepare for an event marking the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China December 18, 2018. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A giant pig-shaped lantern lights up ahead of the New Year and Lunar New Year celebrations at Xinghai Square in Dalian, Liaoning province, China December 18, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Contestants dressed as characters from the movie “Avatar” take part in a tightrope walking contest in Wulingyuan Scenic Area of Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China December 23, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





A woman works on red lanterns at a workshop ahead of New Year and Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, in Wuyi county, Zhejiang province, China December 25, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Members of an elderly choir group sing at an event to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, in Xingtai, Hebei province, China on December 26, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Performers take part in a dragon dance during sunrise at the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China in Huairou district of Beijing, China on January 1, 2019. (Photo by Bu Xiangdong/Qianlong.com via Reuters)





A policeman stands guard next to a component of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft which was found in Badain Jaran Desert after the launch, in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region June 12, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





People play on the frozen Houhai Lake during winter in Beijing, China on January 2, 2019. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





This photo taken on December 10, 2018 shows an aerial view of a man swimming in a partly frozen lake, in a temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





People attend an unveiling ceremony for a fleet of new methanol-fuelled taxis, developed by Geely, in Xian, Shaanxi province, China December 20, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





People prepare a snow sculpture for the Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China December 19, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





A woman browses her iPhone as she walks by a mural depicting an iPhone and Chinese people buy smartphone to communicate with family members, at a subway station in Beijing, Thursday, January 3, 2019. Apple Inc.’s $1,000 iPhone is a tough sell to Chinese consumers who are jittery over an economic slump and a trade war with Washington. The tech giant became the latest global company to collide with Chinese consumer anxiety when CEO Tim Cook said iPhone demand is waning, due mostly to China. Weak consumer demand in the world’s second-largest economy is a blow to industries from autos to designer clothing that are counting on China to drive revenue growth. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Policemen watch as a journalist reports near the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, Friday, December 14, 2018. Canada is being battered by diplomatic ill winds. First, President Donald Trump attacked Canada on trade. Then Saudi Arabia punished it for speaking up for human rights. Now China has the country in its cross-hairs, detaining two Canadians in apparent retaliation for the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive on behalf of the U.S. Canada's normally reliable ally to the south has left it high and dry. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This photo taken on December 9, 2018 shows competitors taking part in a chilli pepper eating contest in a hot spring filled with chilli peppers in the Mingyue Qiangu Scenic Area in Wentang Town, Yichun City, in China's central Jiangxi Province. The winner took one minute to eat 20 peppers. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A woman walks a dog with styled and dyed fur on a street in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China on December 25, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)