China will surely win anti-COVID war in Shanghai, with time-tested epidemic control policy, says top leadership: Xinhuanet
May 5, 2022
China will surely win the war against COVID-19 with its scientific and effective epidemic control policy that will stand the test of time, according to a meeting of the top leadership on Thursday. Click here to read...
China to introduce greater support for smaller businesses and self-employed households, stabilize and upgrade foreign trade: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
China will provide greater relief to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and self-employed households, to promote employment stability by keeping the operations of market entities stable, according to the decision made at the State Council's Executive Meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday. Click here to read...
China announces more measures to shore up small firms: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
The Chinese government on Thursday announced new measures to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and self-employed households navigate hardships. While chairing a State Council executive meeting, Premier Li Keqiang also specified steps to stabilize foreign trade amid efforts to smoothen industrial and supply chains. Click here to read...
China opposes NATO's provocation of bloc confrontations around globe: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
China is firmly opposed to NATO provocating bloc confrontations around the world, a Chinese envoy to the United Nations said Thursday during the Security Council briefing on Ukraine. Click here to read...
Over 70 pct of Shanghai's major enterprises resume production: Xinhuanet
May 5, 2022
Over 70 percent of Shanghai's 1,800-plus major enterprises have resumed work and production amid the city's COVID-19 resurgence, according to a press conference on COVID-19 prevention and control held on Thursday. Click here to read...
Chinese scientists find potential in lunar soil to generate oxygen and fuel: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
Chinese material scientists have found the soil on the moon may potentially be able to generate oxygen and fuel, a find that signifies more tantalizing possibilities of utilizing lunar resources to further human exploration on the moon or beyond. Click here to read...
53 confirmed dead, 10 rescued in central China building collapse: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
A total of 53 people have been confirmed dead in a self-built residential structure collapse in central China's Hunan Province, according to a press conference held on Friday. Ten people have been rescued, officials said. Click here to read...
Chinese mainland reports 356 new local confirmed COVID-19 cases, 245 in Shanghai: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 356 local confirmed COVID-19 cases, of which 245 were in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report Friday. Apart from Shanghai, 12 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 55 in Beijing and 24 in Henan. Click here to read...
China's large-scale water supply projects to cover 54 pct of rural residents: Xinhuanet
May 5, 2022
Large-scale water supply projects are expected to cover 54 percent of China's rural population by the end of this year, the Ministry of Water Resources said on Thursday. The coverage of the projects, which aim to integrate urban and rural water supply and standardize water services, stood at 52 percent in rural areas by end-2021. Click here to read...
Nearly 9,000 COVID-19 testing sites set up in Shanghai: Xinhuanet
May 5, 2022
Nearly 9,000 nucleic acid testing sites had been set up in Shanghai as of Wednesday evening, officials told a press conference on Thursday. Over 4,500 of these sites have opened for service and the rest will open in accordance with the epidemic situation and work resumption requirements, said Chen Shiyan, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission. Click here to read...
Shanghai reports 245 confirmed, 4,024 asymptomatic local COVID-19 cases: Xinhuanet
May 6, 2022
China's Shanghai reported 245 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 4,024 local asymptomatic cases on Thursday, the municipal health commission said Friday. Click here to read...
Ministry to shore up bottlenecks along transport infrastructure: China Daily
May 6, 2022
China will encourage investment in transport infrastructure construction, ensuring unimpeded logistics and helping solve the problems of enterprises to maintain a stable economy, a senior official from the Ministry of Transport said. "Transportation and logistics are the arteries of the economy and important pillars to support people's livelihoods," Xu Chengguang, chief planner of the Ministry of Transport, told Xinhua News Agency. Click here to read...
CPC top leadership stresses sticking to zero-COVID policy: Global Times
May 5, 2022
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on COVID-19 prevention work on Thursday. The meeting emphasized that China's current COVID-19 control strategy has been proven to be scientific and effective, and should be unwaveringly adhered to as the country reaches a key and tough stage in fighting COVID-19. Click here to read...
Chinese FM wishes Blinken speedy recovery from COVID after virus postpones his speech on 'China strategy': Global Times
May 5, 2022
Hours ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's scheduled speech to outline the country's "China strategy," the State Department announced to postpone it due to Blinken's positive test result for COVID-19. Click here to read...
Special envoy promotes China's goodwill to mediate during Seoul visit amid rising tensions on Korean Peninsula: Global Times
May 5, 2022
China's special representative on Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming expounded on China's stance on the issue and stressed that the country disapproves of actions by any party that could escalate the situation during his Seoul visit, which observers said "carries China's sincerest goodwill to play a constructive mediating role" as the Peninsula experiences rising tensions and the Ukraine crisis casts a shadow over regional and global security. Click here to read...
Demand for shared bikes surges in Beijing amid strict anti-epidemic efforts: Global Times
May 5, 2022
On the first working day after the May Day holidays, demand for shared bikes skyrocketed in some core business areas of Beijing, as the capital tightened anti-virus measures and closed some of the city's subway stations and bus stops to cut the spread of the virus. Click here to read...
Shanghai says China's worst COVID outbreak under "effective control": Reuters
May 6, 2022
Shanghai said on Friday it has brought China's worst outbreak of COVID-19 under effective control following a month-long lockdown of nearly 25 million people, with authorities vowing to stand by their zero-COVID strategy despite mounting economic costs. Click here to read...
China will roll out more support measures to stabilise jobs: Reuters
May 5, 2022
China will roll out more support measures to help small firms and stabilise employment, including the introduction of policies to support the platform economy as soon as possible, State TV cited country's cabinet as saying on Thursday. Click here to read...
Former China Development Bank exec charged for taking bribes: Reuters
May 6, 2022
A former vice president of China Development Bank (CDB), He Xingxiang, has been charged for taking bribes, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. He is also charged for issuing financial bills in violation of regulations, illegally issuing huge amounts of loans and concealing overseas deposits, Xinhua said. Click here to read...
Didi, Lenovo founders go private on China social media, join retreat from spotlight: Reuters
May 5, 2022
The president of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and her father, the founder of Lenovo (0992.HK), have ended their public presence on China's main social media site, the latest Chinese tech leaders to retreat from the spotlight. Didi's Jean Liu and her father, Liu Chuanzhi, both switched on a function on China's Weibo platform to hide all old posts, at some time during the just-ended Labour Day holiday. Neither had posted in the past six months. Click here to read...
China interfering with competition bill, says Biden: Taipei Times
May 5, 2022
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused the Chinese government of trying to interfere in negotiations over a broad China competition bill that would bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing. “Fundamentally, this is a national security issue. This is one of the reasons why the Chinese Communist Party is lobbying folks to oppose this bill,” Biden said on Tuesday in Troy, Alabama. “And it’s an issue that unites Democrats and Republicans. So, let’s get it done.” Click here to read...
Could the US military dominate space via Starlink’s satellite network?: South China Morning Post
May 6, 2022
The international community should be on high alert for the US Armed Forces’ potential domination of outer space via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet system, the official newspaper of the Chinese military said on Thursday. “The Starlink project has decided to increase the planned 12,000 satellites to 42,000, underscoring that it is widely distributed, flexible and could be reconfigured quickly,” a PLA Daily commentary said. “The ambition to militarise Starlink and its barbaric expansion deserve high alert from the international community.” Click here to read...
Xi Jinping says China’s Covid policies will ‘stand the test of time’ in Shanghai: South China Morning Post
May 6, 2022
President Xi Jinping has spoken out for the first time on China’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai, saying it “will stand the test of time” and pledged to fight any attempt to “distort, question and challenge” the country’s policies. Chairing the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee meeting, the highest decision-making body in China, Xi gave a speech telling officials and party cadres to stand firm and not waver. He said China will prevail in the fight against Covid-19 in Shanghai just as it did in Wuhan, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday night. Click here to read...
The crackdown on China’s ‘moderate’ rights voices: how tweets are now landing people in prison: South China Morning Post
May 6, 2022
Activist Wang Aizhong was taken into custody and charged by authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in May last year.
Nearly a year later, he is still behind bars without having gone to trial: his hearing scheduled for mid-April was cancelled abruptly the week before, with no reason or new date given. “I’m worried that they keep delaying it,” Wang Henan, his wife, said. Click here to read...
US Secretary of State calls China the biggest violator of press freedoms, citing detention data: South China Morning Post
May 4, 2022
Washington’s top diplomat used the occasion of World Press Freedom Day to knock the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong governments for media restrictions and alleged harassment of journalists and dissidents worldwide. Citing data compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based non-profit advocacy group, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China the biggest threat to press freedom in terms of the number of journalists under detention because of their work. Click here to read...
