Shanghai authorities on Monday confirmed the deaths of three Covid patients in the city, the first reported in the current outbreak. They included two women and one man, aged between 89 and 91. Health officials in the financial hub said all three...

A space agency official said on Sunday that China would launch three more astronauts to its newest space station in June after a crewed mission returned this weekend following a six-month stay in orbit. The crew of Shenzhou 14 will spend six months ...

Shanghai recorded 21,582 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases and 3,238 new symptomatic cases on Saturday, health authorities said on Sunday. The number of asymptomatic cases was up from 19,923 a day earlier, while the number of symptomatic cases fell...

Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday, as other areas across China imposed restrictions in response to the spread of the Omicron variant. The Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, manufacturing area in central China ...

Three mainland astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, the country’s longest space mission to date, state television reported. The astronauts landed nine hours after leaving a key module of China's first space station. W...

The northwestern city of Xian said on Friday it will temporarily impose a partial lockdown to reduce its 13 million residents' movement, after reporting dozens of Covid-19 infections this month, as China fights a record wave of cases. Since March, ...

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Friday it had identified 666 companies in Shanghai that it will help to resume production amid the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in the city. In a public notice, the regulator said it wi...

New home prices on the mainland stalled for a second straight month in March, official data showed on Friday. Average new home prices in China's 70 major cities remained unchanged month-on-month in March, the same as in February, according to calcul...

Shanghai recorded 19,872 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases and 3,200 new symptomatic cases on Thursday, the local government said on Friday. The number of asymptomatic cases was down from 25,146 a day earlier, while the number of symptomatic cases ...

Beijing hopes the United States will remove tariffs on Chinese goods and stop cracking down on Chinese firms as soon as possible, commerce ministry spokeswoman Shu Jueting told a news conference on Thursday. Stable and healthy bilateral trade relati...

President Xi Jinping has said China must stick to its strict "dynamic Covid clearance" policy as the global pandemic remains very serious, and promised those enduring lockdowns that persistence will win out in the end. The country's zero-Covid polic...

Shanghai reported a slight increase in new Covid infections on Thursday. According to the National Health Commission, the country's financial hub reported a total of 27,719 cases. That's 1,389 more than the previous day. Authorities said 25,146, ...

China's overall trade with Russia rose to 243 billion yuan (US$38.18 billion) between January and March, up nearly 28 percent from a year earlier, a Chinese customs spokesman said on Wednesday. The country's total trade with Ukraine, meanwhile, clim...

Shanghai on Wednesday reported another surge in Covid-19 infections, as authorities banned most cars from the roads and warned anyone who violates lockdown rules will be dealt with strictly. According to figures released by the National Health Com...

Guangzhou officials on Tuesday announced that the city added 10 symptomatic Covid-19 cases and another three infections without symptoms. Authorities said the new infections were linked to previous cases with clear transmission chains. “The epi...

Shanghai on Tuesday saw a slight drop in new local Covid-19 infections. The financial hub reported over 23,000 new local cases for the day, among them 994 symptomatic and 22,348 asymptomatic. That compares with more than 26,000 local infections t...

As Shanghai continues to battle a high number of Covid-19 infections, new cases emerging in Guangzhou have prompted local authorities to suspend in-person classes. Shanghai on Monday reported over 26,000 new local Covid cases – among them 914 wer...

Most of the latest Covid-19 cases across the border were again reported from Shanghai. Health authorities recorded a total of 26,355 new infections on the mainland in the past day. That compared with a little more than 25,000 the day before. The Na...

Shanghai will soon begin lifting lockdowns in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of Covid testing, authorities said on Saturday. The fresh round of testing comes as the city reported about 23,000 cases on Sa...

The mainland reported 1,350 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, the country's national health authority said on Saturday, compared with 1,576 a day earlier. Of the new cases, 1,334 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said...