China's newest commodity exchange launches industrial silicon futures: Xinhuanet
December 22, 2022
The Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX), the youngest of China's five major futures bourses, launched industrial silicon futures on Thursday, aiming to pursue green development and help promote the opening-up of the country's market. Click here to read...
Land-sea trade corridor facilitates sugar import from India: Xinhuanet
December 22, 2022
A rail-sea intermodal train, carrying 265 tonnes of raw sugar from India, on Wednesday arrived in Lanzhou New Area, northwest China's Gansu Province. It is the first time raw sugar from India has entered Gansu through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. Worth 150,000 U.S. dollars, the sugar, in 10 containers, will be processed and eventually used as an additive in food ingredients. Click here to read...
New platforms launched to enhance SCO health cooperation: Xinhuanet
December 22, 2022
A series of medical and health platforms were launched under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Thursday to provide members of the group with better health services. Click here to read...
Former senior Henan official stands trial for bribery: Xinhuanet
December 22, 2022
Gan Rongkun, a former senior official in central China's Henan Province, stood trial for bribery on Thursday at the Intermediate People's Court of Changzhou City in Jiangsu Province. Click here to read...
Joint Press Release of the 17th Round of India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting: China Military
December 22, 2022
The 17th round of India-China Corps Commander Level Meeting was held at Chushul-Moldo border meeting point on the Chinese side on 20th December 2022. Building on the progress made after the last meeting on 17th July 2022, the two sides exchanged views on the resolution of the relevant issues along the LAC in the Western Sector in an open and constructive manner. They had a frank and in-depth discussion, keeping in line with the guidance provided by the State Leaders to work for the resolution of the remaining issues at the earliest which would help in restoration of peace and tranquility along the LAC in the Western Sector and enable progress in bilateral relations. Click here to read...
Zhejiang offers additional support for medical workers: China Daily
December 22, 2022
Zhejiang province will make an effort to improve the working conditions, salaries and benefits for medical personnel, a notice released by provincial authorities said on Wednesday. Click here to read...
Multiple regions in China call for donations due to shortage of blood stock: Global Times
December 22, 2022
Multiple regions from the north to the south across China have recently called on more residents to actively donate blood under strict personal protection guidelines as they face a shortage of blood caused by many factors including the epidemic impact and prolonged cold weather, which have led to a sharp drop in blood donations. Click here to read...
China calls for collaboration of city hospitals and rural clinics to cope with COVID surge: Global Times
December 22, 2022
As the COVID-19 outbreak in China gradually sweeps into rural areas where medical systems are relatively weaker, governments and medical experts are calling for coordinated collaboration between big hospitals and grassroots medical institutes. They ask the latter to upgrade their capacity of treating patients as the grassroots hospitals are facing shortages of medicine and medical staff. Click here to read...
China sanctions two US individuals over illegal US sanctions on Xizang region: Global Times
December 23, 2022
Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced sanctions on Yu Maochun, known as Miles Yu in the US, and Todd Stein as countermeasures to the illegal US sanctions of two Chinese officials on so-called human rights issues related to China’s Xizang region. Click here to read...
China urges caution as UN Security Council adopts first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years: Global Times
December 22, 2022
China's ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Zhang Jun stressed that the UN Security Council must always act with extra caution while making explanatory statement after abstaining from voting on the council's first-ever resolution on Myanmar on Wednesday, which demanded an end to violence and urged the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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PLA Navy's carrier Liaoning ramps up aircraft sortie training in West Pacific: Global Times
December 22, 2022
The aircraft carrier Liaoning of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy reportedly hosted about 130 aircraft sorties in four days after it entered the West Pacific for far sea drills last week, more than twice as intensive as the exercises held in the same region in May, displaying the carrier's high level of combat readiness, analysts said on Thursday. Click here to read...
China, India agree to work out mutually acceptable resolution of remaining issues in LAC Western Sector: Global Times
December 22, 2022
China and India have agreed to work out a mutually acceptable resolution of the remaining issues in the Western Sector along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) at the earliest by staying in close contact and maintaining dialogue through military and diplomatic channels. Click here to read...
Tencent rolls out mini program to help with drug sharing amid shortages: Global Times
December 22, 2022
Chinese tech giant Tencent rolled out a new mini program on its WeChat platform aimed at helping people share their surplus medicine as the recent Omicron infection flare-ups have pushed up demand for analgesics and antipyretics. Click here to read...
China’s Ministry of Finance allocates over 5b yuan of natural disaster relief funds amid cold waves: Global Times
December 22, 2022
China's Ministry of Finance, together with the Ministry of Emergency Management, allocated 5.48 billion yuan ($784.6 million) of central natural disaster relief funds to ensure a safe and warm winter for people affected by natural disasters, according to an announcement by the ministry on Thursday. Click here to read...
State Council appoints, removes officials: People’s Daily
December 22, 2022
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced the appointment and removal of officials Wednesday. Wang Jiayi was appointed vice minister of education, replacing Zheng Fuzhi.
Zheng was also removed from his post of the National Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Education. Click here to read...
Top Shanghai pandemic expert slammed as ‘irresponsible’ for saying Covid is on its way out of China: South China Morning Post
December 22, 2022
Noted Shanghai infectious diseases expert Zhang Wenhong’s optimistic forecast that the Covid-19 pandemic would soon end in China has been slammed as ill-founded and “irresponsible” by one of the country’s senior scientists. “Yesterday, a doctor made some irresponsible comments,” noted neurobiologist Rao Yi said in a post on WeChat, a social media platform. “The fact is nobody can say with certainty today in which direction the Covid pandemic would go,” Rao wrote on Sunday. “Nobody can rule out the possibility that the virus will be with us forever, or that an explosion of cases will happen thrice a year with varying degrees of severity.” Click here to read...
BioNTech-Fosun mRNA COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Beijing, available for German nationals living in China: Global Times
December 23, 2022
About 11,500 doses of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine co-developed by German-based BioNTech and China's Fosun Pharma have arrived in Beijing and are expected to be made available in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Chengdu to provide vaccination for German nationals living in China, news site Thepaper reported on Thursday. Click here to read...
China's first domestically produced S-300C helicopter delivered: People’s Daily
December 23, 2022
China's first domestically produced S-300C helicopter was successfully delivered to a customer on Tuesday, National Business Daily reported on Thursday. As one of the most popular training machines in the world, S-300C is mainly used in pilot training and low altitude tourism. Click here to read...
China shoots to fifth place in robot density rankings: People’s Daily
December 23, 2022
China's massive investment in industrial robotics has put the country higher in global rankings in terms of robot density, surpassing the United States for the first time and marking a significant improvement in the country's industrial automation level, an industry report said. Click here to read...
Senate committee asks automakers about supply chain links to China: Kyodo
December 23, 2022
A Senate committee on Thursday asked major automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. about whether their supply chains have links with China's Xinjiang region, in the latest U.S. effort to tackle the issue of forced labor. Click here to read...
China likely seeing 1m cases, 5,000 deaths per day: Taipei Times
December 23, 2022
China is likely experiencing 1 million new COVID-19 cases and 5,000 deaths from the virus every day, as it grapples with what is expected to be the biggest outbreak of the disease the world has ever seen, a new analysis showed. However, the situation could get even worse for the country of 1.4 billion people. The number of daily cases might rise to 3.7 million next month, UK-based Airfinity Ltd said. Click here to read...
Japan to investigate secret Chinese police stations: Taipei Times
December 23, 2022
Japanese authorities are investigating a report from a human rights group that China has set up police offices in Japan, a top government spokesperson said yesterday, following similar checks by European countries, the US and Canada. Click here to read...
Amid China’s coronavirus crisis, Beijing draws doctors and staff from provinces to ease overwhelmed hospitals: South China Morning Post
December 23, 2022
China has sent hundreds of healthcare workers, some specialising in critical care, to the capital Beijing to ease the burden at heavily strained hospitals amid a tsunami of infections.
At least 500 doctors and nurses from Shandong province in eastern China and dozens from neighbouring Jiangsu have been sent to hospitals across the city – despite manpower shortages in their home hospitals – to help battle the worst Covid-19 wave Beijing has seen in the past three years. Click here to read...
Morgues overwhelmed: why China’s new Covid crisis is all of its own making: South China Morning Post
December 23, 2022
Inside an overcrowded Beijing hospital struggling with Covid surge in China. Since Beijing’s sudden U-turn on ending the zero-Covid policy more than two weeks ago, Chinese officials and state media have struggled to put a positive spin on the decision. They have argued that the draconian coronavirus controls – which have isolated the country from the rest of the world over the past three years – won the population of 1.4 billion valuable, life-saving time. They have also tried to reshape public perception of the virus – until last month labelled serious and deadly in the official narrative to justify zero-Covid – by stressing that the latest Omicron variants may be highly contagious but the symptoms they cause are mild. Click here to read...
Top Shanghai pandemic expert slammed as ‘irresponsible’ for saying Covid is on its way out of China: South China Morning Post
December 22, 2022
Noted Shanghai infectious diseases expert Zhang Wenhong’s optimistic forecast that the Covid-19 pandemic would soon end in China has been slammed as ill-founded and “irresponsible” by one of the country’s senior scientists. “Yesterday, a doctor made some irresponsible comments,” noted neurobiologist Rao Yi said in a post on WeChat, a social media platform. “The fact is nobody can say with certainty today in which direction the Covid pandemic would go,” Rao wrote on Sunday. “Nobody can rule out the possibility that the virus will be with us forever, or that an explosion of cases will happen thrice a year with varying degrees of severity.” Click here to read...
Xinjiang opens first high plateau airport: Xinhuanet
December 23, 2022
A passenger aircraft on Friday morning arrived in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, marking the inauguration of the region's first high plateau airport. Click here to read...
Shanghai residents pool medical resources: China Daily
December 23, 2022
Several district governments in Shanghai have been encouraging residents to share their surplus medication with neighbors in light of the temporary shortage of fever medicine in the city. Click here to read...
China hospital data absent from WHO's latest COVID reports, raising concern: Reuters
December 23, 2022
The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID-19 hospitalisations since Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy, prompting some health experts to question whether it might be hiding information on the extent of its outbreak. Click here to read...
Blinken cites need for all countries including China to share COVID information: Reuters
December 23, 2022
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday emphasized the need for all countries, including China, to share information on their experiences with COVID-19, at a time when some experts have started raising questions about Beijing's official hospitalization and casualty figures. Click here to read...
China lacked a 'zero COVID' exit plan. Its people are paying the price: Reuters
December 23, 2022
At the public hospital in Shanghai where Nora, a 30-year-old doctor, works, tension has spiraled since China relaxed its stringent zero-COVID policy on Dec. 7.
Patients quarrel with doctors to access drugs that are in short supply, like cough medicines and pain killers. Medics are overloaded; infected staff continue to work because of a scarcity of personnel. Click here to read...
China's stretched health system braces for peak in COVID infections: Reuters
December 23, 2022
China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country's health system even as they downplay the disease's severity and continue to report no new deaths. Click here to read...
China sanctions two US individuals over illegal US sanctions on Xizang region: Global Times
December 23, 2022
Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced sanctions on Yu Maochun, known as Miles Yu in the US, and Todd Stein as countermeasures to the illegal US sanctions of two Chinese officials on so-called human rights issues related to China’s Xizang region. Click here to read...
