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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:52:25 +0800
Mainland Covid tally surpasses 20,000
The daily Covid-19 caseload on the mainland has topped 20,000 infections. According to the National Health Commission, there were 1,568 locally transmitted and 18,491 asymptomatic infections on Tuesday for a total of 20,059, up from 17,772 the day b...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 13:03:58 +0800
Sweeping measures to support China's property sector
Beijing has unveiled sweeping measures to support the property sector, as regulators seek promote the “stable and healthy development” of the industry. The banking regulator and central bank on Friday issued a 16-point set of internal directives...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:08:42 +0800
Alibaba keeps Singles Day sales tally under wraps
E-commerce giant Alibaba has not released full sales figures for its annual Singles Day event for the first time ever, as a cooling economy dampened demand. Launched in 2009, Singles Day is the world's largest shopping festival, dwarfing similar eve...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:30:56 +0800
Quarantines shortened as China eases Covid curbs
China on Friday eased some of its Covid-19 restrictions, including shortening quarantines by two days for inbound travellers and close contacts of infected people and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases. The loosening of t...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:42:47 +0800
Mainland Covid curbs intensify as cases surge
Mainland authorities have stepped up Covid-19 lockdowns and other curbs to halt clusters from spreading as the nation's caseload soared to its highest since this year's Shanghai lockdown, with Beijing and Zhengzhou seeing record daily cases. China r...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:22:17 +0800
Xi, Biden to meet on Monday: White House
US President Joe Biden will meet on Monday with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, a face-to-face meeting that comes amid increasingly strained China-US relations, the White House announced o...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:42:28 +0800
Mainland authorities destroy 3k tonnes of fake goods
Mainland authorities on Thursday destroyed a giant haul of counterfeit products purporting to be from brands such as Nike and Louis Vuitton at an event held across 17 provinces and cities, broadcaster CCTV reported. In all, 3,000 tonnes of counterfe...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:49:51 +0800
Biden seeks to gauge US, China 'red lines' with Xi
US leader Joe Biden on Wednesday said he would ask President Xi Jinping about his "red lines" to reduce the potential for conflict amid soaring tensions over Taiwan when they gather next week in Bali. A day before flying to Asia, Biden indirectly co...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:46:28 +0800
Bao Tong, secretary to Zhao Ziyang, dies at 90
Bao Tong, who served as secretary to the former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, died on Wednesday morning in Beijing. He was 90. Writing on social media, his children said Bao passed away peacefully. Bao was born in Zhejiang province in 1932 ...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:29:41 +0800
Factory gate prices see first fall in nearly 2 years
China's factory gate prices for October dropped for the first time since December 2020, as falling global commodity prices made their mark on the nation’s economy. The producer price index (PPI) fell 1.3 percent year-on-year, reversing from a 0.9 ...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:48:00 +0800
China shows off sleek new jet at major airshow
A scaled-down version of the nation's biggest air show, showcasing the domestically-produced C919 passenger jet, opened on Tuesday. The event comes as virus case numbers on the mainland reached their highest level in six months, with the organisers ...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:17:29 +0800
China's super-rich getting less wealthy
China's super-rich saw their wealth tumble by the most in over two decades this year, as the Russia-Ukraine war, Beijing's zero-Covid measures and falling mainland and Hong Kong stock markets pummelled fortunes, an annual rich list said on Tuesday. ...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:35:57 +0800
China exports fall in October, first drop since 2020
The nation's exports shrank in October, the first such decline since mid-2020, customs authorities said on Monday, as a domestic slowdown and the threat of global recession hit international trade. Exports fell 0.3 percent year-on-year in October, a...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:31:15 +0800
Apple says iPhone production hit by plant lockdown
Apple said Covid restrictions have "temporarily impacted" production at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season. Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor...

Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:03:02 +0800
Guangdong logs a surge in Covid cases
Guangdong province on Sunday reported 1,582 new local Covid infections – up from 888 the day before – with authorities offering door-to-door PCR tests in a district in Guangzhou where most of the cases were found. Most of the recent Covid infect...

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 02:48:03 +0800
Mainland to allow expats to have BioNTech Covid shot
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced an agreement on Friday to let expatriates on the mainland use the Covid-19 vaccine from Germany's BioNTech and pressed for Beijing to allow the shot to be made freely available to Chinese citizens. On his firs...

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:38:37 +0800
German leader Scholz on China visit
President Xi Jinping said the German chancellor's visit to Beijing will "deepen practical cooperation" between the two countries as he met Olaf Scholz in Beijing on Friday. Xi said he believed the visit would "enhance mutual understanding and mutual...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:54:24 +0800
Shenzhou-14 crew enter Mengtian lab module
Shenzhou-14 astronauts have entered the Mengtian lab module of China's under-construction space station, Tiangong. According to the China Manned Space Agency, the Shenzhou-14 crew entered Mengtian at 3:12pm on Thursday, Beijing time. The agency sai...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:50:34 +0800
Canada's CBC News to shut Beijing bureau
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Wednesday it was shutting its news bureau in Beijing after waiting two years in vain for a China work permit for its journalists. The publicly owned news outlet had numerous exchanges with Chinese offici...

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:27:51 +0800
'Economic growth to stay within reasonable range'
The nation will be able to maintain normal monetary policy and positive interest rates for as long as possible with its potential economic growth likely to stay within a reasonable range, its central bank governor said. The world's second-biggest ec...



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