A man dips in the cold canal water during a balmy autumn day in Beijing, China, Friday, November 5, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





China immigration inspection officers in protective overalls march near a container ship at a port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province Sunday, November 7, 2021. China's exports remained strong in October, a positive sign for an economy trying to weather power shortages and COVID-19 outbreaks.(Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)





A worker walks with a shovel as fresh snow falls in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. An early-season snowstorm has blanketed much of northern China including the capital Beijing, prompting road closures and flight cancellations. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A delivery man moves past a car with a blanket of fresh snow in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Workers at a restaurant build a snowman in the shape of a pandemic first responder with a protective suit and a mask in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A security guard stands near a stone lion with a covering of snow in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A resident takes a photo for her friend in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents past by a snow covered car in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents play with fresh snow in Beijing, China, Sunday, November 7, 2021. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





In this image released by the Xinhua News Agency, a photo taken on a screen shows Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping steps out from the space station's Tianhe core module, at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Sunday, November 7, 2021. Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country's space station. Wang and fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station's Tianhe core module on Sunday evening Beijing time, spending more than six hours installing equipment and carrying out tests alongside the station's robotic service arm. (Photo by Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A woman uses her winter clothes to shield from the wind and snow on a street as the capital is hit by snowstorm in Beijing, Sunday, November 7, 2021. An early-season snowstorm has blanketed much of northern China including the capital Beijing, prompting road closures and flight cancellations. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Medical workers who finished their daily work pose for a photo before leaving a mobile laboratory for nucleic acid test in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, November 5, 2021. A mobile, inflatable laboratory for conducting COVID-19 tests was officially put into use on Nov. 1 at a sports center in Harbin. The laboratory can cope with swab samples from 1.75 million people for nucleic acid tests per day. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A family burns fake paper money and other items in a ritual in memory of recently deceased relatives on a street on November 5, 2021 in Beijing, China. Burning paper money, known as joss paper, is a traditional Chinese-Taoist practice that people believe will send money and goods to relatives in the afterlife. Due to the closure of religious sites due to COVID-19 control measures, some people who would usually take part in the ritual at a local temple performed it in the street. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





A delivery driver rides a scooter passed cars covered in snow and leaves following a snowfall on November 7, 2021 in Beijing, China. Beijing, which averages less than seven days of snow annually, is set to host the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics next February. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)





Customers walk in a store of the Uniqlo fast fashion retailer on its opening day in the Sanlitun shopping district in Beijing, China, November 6, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





This aerial photo taken on November 7, 2021 shows terraced fields after a snowfall in Handan in China's northern Hebei province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This photo taken on November 7, 2021 shows a panda playing in its enclosure after snowfall in Xian in China's northern Shaanxi province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A macaque crosses a pedestrian overpass in Hong Kong, China, 08 November 2021. According the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, AFCD, the total population of wild monkeys in Hong Kong is about 1,800, distributed in 30 social troops. (Photo by Jerome Favre/EPA/EFE)





Staff members spray disinfectant at a testing site in Chengxi District of Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, November 8, 2021. Xining started its second round of mass nucleic acid testing at 9 a.m. on Monday. As of November 7, Xining finished the first round of testing, and all swab samples from 1,448,000 citizens came back negative. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)