Women train with plastic baby dolls as they take part in a nursing skills class for confinement carers, at Yipeitong training centre in Shanghai, China on March 2, 2023. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)





As the 10th World Wildlife Day comes, parents take children to visit the animal and plant specimens and learn the knowledge of protecting wild animals and plants in Kunming City, southwest China's Yunnan Province on March 4, 2023. (Photo by Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Police officers stand guard where a cancelled march for women's rights was scheduled to take place in Hong Kong, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Organizers cancelled a demonstration at the last minute on Saturday in what would have been the first major civil rights protest in three years approved by police. Police noted a risk of “violent groups” joining the original protest and warned people who attend may be arrested for unauthorized assembly. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Police officers and security stand guard at the south end of Tiananmen Square during the opening session of the National Peoples Congress in Beijing on March 5, 2023. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





Paramilitary police officers march at the south end of Tiananmen Square during the opening session of the National Peoples Congress in Beijing on March 5, 2023. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP Photo)





A security personnel keeps watch at the end of the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on March 5, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A woman feeds red-billed gulls on the Haigeng Dam of Dian Lake on March 5, 2023 in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by Yang Zheng/VCG via Getty Images)





Staff members wearing face masks stand near the podium during a press conference by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A couple pose for their wedding photographs while people walk their dog on a beach in Hong Kong on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)





In this photo released by Hong Kong's Information Services Department, Hong Kong police escort a suspect at the Shenzhen Bay Port border crossing in Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Hong Kong police on Tuesday said a woman accused of assisting another suspect in the gruesome killing of model Abby Choi had been arrested by mainland authorities. (Photo by Information Services Department via AP Photo)





Ethnic minority delegates leave after the second plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang looks on as a hostess refills his cup during a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Delegates leave after a session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Tourists watch a light show at Datang Everbright City at night on March 7, 2023 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of China. (Photo by Li Hui/VCG via Getty Images)





An aircraft operated by Cathay Pacific Airways takes off from Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, on Wednesday, March. 8, 2023. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said it was ready to rebuild as Hong Kong opened up to global visitors, despite reporting wider losses in 2022. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





A Cathay Pacific Airways employee walks through the departures hall of Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, on Wednesday, March. 8, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Cathay Pacific Airways employees walk through the departures hall of Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, on Wednesday, March. 8, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom center, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, poses for a group photo with deputies from the delegation of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the People's Armed Police Force before attending a plenary meeting of the delegation during the first session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Xi has called for “more quickly elevating the armed forces to world-class standards”, in a speech coming days after he warned the country was threatened by a U.S.-led campaign of “containment, encirclement and suppression of China”. (Photo by Li Gang/Xinhua via AP Photo)





Attendents ring the gong during a ceremony held by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to mark the International Women's Day at the HKEX Connect Hall on March 8, 2023 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Chen Yongnuo/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)





A woman poses for a photo under blooming trees in a park, as more than a dozen major Chinese cities recorded record high temperatures for this time of year this week, with central China's Wuhan and Zhengzhou recording more than 10 degrees celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) higher temperatures than normal for early March, in Shanghai, China on March 9, 2023. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)