Chinese flags are lowered to half-staff, following the death of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, on the Bund in Shanghai, China on December 1, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A child peeps into a shuttered shopping mall as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Thursday, December 1, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Residents ride public transport in the district of Haizhu as pandemic restrictions are eased in southern China's Guangzhou province, Thursday, December 1, 2022. More Chinese cities eased some anti-virus restrictions as police patrolled their streets to head off protests Thursday while the ruling Communist Party prepared for the high-profile funeral of late leader Jiang Zemin. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man prepares Christmas trees for sale at the flower markets in Hong Kong on December 2, 2022. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





A pandemic prevention worker in a protective suit approaches an apartment in a building that went into lockdown as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks continue in Beijing, on December 2, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman and a child fly kite on a green outside a mall in Beijing, Sunday, December 4, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask looks at masked man holding a dog as they walk through a reopened open air shopping mall in Beijing, Sunday, December 4, 2022. China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





An elderly man puts on his mask after getting his routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site displaying a poster which encourages elderly citizen to get vaccination in Beijing, Sunday, December 4, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, astronaut Chen Dong waves as he sits outside the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 manned space mission after it lands successfully at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Sunday, December 4, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country's ambitious space program, state TV reported. (Photo by Li Gang/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A pandemic prevention worker in a protective suit piles up bags of medical waste outside a building where residents isolate at home as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks continue in Beijing on December 5, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





An installation of paper pandas is on display during 1,864 Panda Touring Exhibition at the Super Brand Mall on December 5, 2022 in Shanghai, China. The exhibition features over 500 paper giant pandas designed by artist Han Meilin, with an aim to promote awareness of protecting endangered wild animals. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





Attendees arrive for a memorial for the late former Chinese President Jiang Zemin outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, December 6, 2022. A formal memorial service is held Tuesday at the Great Hall of the People, the seat of the ceremonial legislature in the center of Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, honor guard members stand near a giant portrait of late former Chinese President Jiang Zemin during a formal memorial held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. (Photo by CCTV via AP Photo)





A worker walks by a group of people stand watch at an outdoor screen showing a live broadcast of the memorial service for late former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, at the Wangfujing shopping street in Beijing, Tuesday, December 6, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Mourners observe three minutes of silence as they pay their respects to former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who passed away on November 30, outside his hold home in Yangzhou, China's eastern Jiangsu province on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





Health workers wait to test passengers for the Covid-19 coronavirus after their arrival at Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai, on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A Chinese flag flies at half mast in front of the Lujiazui financial district, on the day of the memorial service for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, in Shanghai, China on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





A woman wearing a face mask and face shield get ready for her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Wednesday, December 7, 2022. China has announced new measures rolling back COVID-19 restrictions, including limiting lockdowns and testing requirements. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A health worker waits for people to take swab samples to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus inside of a compound in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)





A 16-meter-high snowman is nearly completed by the Songhua River in Harbin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)