A woman takes a smartphone photo of the Chinese traditional paper cutting arts exhibited at the Beijing Art and Craft Museum during the Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, Sunday, January 29, 2023. Chinese people are enjoying a week-long holiday for the Lunar New Year and visiting various temple fairs and exhibitions held in the cities around China. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Visitors enjoy skating on the crowded frozen Houhai Lake in Beijing, Monday, January 30, 2023. Chinese people are enjoying the Lunar New Year and visiting various tourist sites in cities around China following the lifting last month of draconian COVID-19 restrictions, allowing a return to many aspects of normal life. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Tugboats push the crude oil tanker Habrut to a reception terminal operated by China Petrochemical Corporation or Sinopec Group on January 30, 2023 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A trishaw driver wades through a crowded street at the frozen Houhai Lake in Beijing, Monday, January 30, 2023. The outlook for the global economy is growing slightly brighter as China eases its zero-COVID policies and the world shows surprising resilience in the face of high inflation, elevated interest rates and Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A vendor selling sugar-coated Chinese haws on his bicycle as visitors pose for photos with their purchased sugar-coated haws outside the Drum Tower in Beijing, Monday, January 30, 2023. Chinese people are enjoying the Lunar New Year and visiting various tourist sites in cities around China following the lifting last month of draconian COVID-19 restrictions, allowing a return to many aspects of normal life. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Folk artists play “iron flowers”, a performance of splashing molten iron to create fireworks, in celebration of the upcoming Latern Festival at Goujiang Township of Bozhou District, Zunyi City of southwest China's Guizhou Province, January 30, 2023. The Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, falls on Feb. 5 this year. The festival features family reunions, feasts, light shows and various cultural activities. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Tourist take photos of pink trumpet flowers on January 31, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Chen Jimin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





Folk artists perform fire dragon dance amid sparkles on February 1, 2023 in Jieyang, China. With the release of epidemic control, the suspended Fire Dragon Dance was resumed, and a large number of citizens came to participate. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Folk artists perform fire dragon dance amid sparkles on February 1, 2023 in Jieyang, China. With the release of epidemic control, the suspended Fire Dragon Dance was resumed, and a large number of citizens came to participate. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A girl wearing a face mask walks through the lobby of the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Visitors continue to flock to museums, historic sites, and tourist attractions in China's capital as the Lunar New Year holiday period winds down. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





People use sled on a frozen lake by the Summer Palace in Beijing on February 2, 2023. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Commuters wearing face masks walk across an intersection in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Febuary 2, 2023. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A woman and child wearing face masks walk through a gallery at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Visitors continue to flock to museums, historic sites, and tourist attractions in China's capital as the Lunar New Year holiday period winds down. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Tourists visit the illuminated Qianzhou Ancient Town to celebrate Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, at night on February 1, 2023 in Jishou, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A dog has its portrait taken at a pet show in Hong Kong on February 3, 2023. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





A lion dance team performs to bring good fortune and to chase away bad luck at a shopping district in Hong Kong on February 3, 2023. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





Pro-democracy activist Clarisse Yeung Suet-ying, center, arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts to attend her national security trial in Hong Kong, Monday, February 6, 2023. Some of Hong Kong's best-known pro-democracy activists went on trial Monday in the biggest prosecution yet under a law imposed by China's ruling Communist Party to crush dissent. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/AP Photo)





Policemen wearing face masks stand guard outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts ahead of the national security trail for the pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, Monday February 6, 2023. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/AP Photo)





An aerial view of people performing the dragon dance in Qianyuan Town of Deqing County in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, 04 February 2023 (issued 05 February 2023). The Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, falls on 05 February this year. Various folk cultural activities were held across the country to welcome the upcoming festival. (Photo by Xie Shangguo/EPA/Xinhua News Agency)