Shenzhen sets up RCEP service center
The service center will play an active role in helping local businesses get a deeper understanding of tariff reduction and trade facilitation measures, thereby promoting trade.
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Education firm finds fortunes via livestream
Embattled education training company New Oriental began trending on China's social media platforms recently, after its teachers started livestreaming the selling of agricultural…
Restaurant attack highlights vulnerability of women in China, say netizens
Some netizens have also criticised the police for being slow to respond to the incident, which resulted in the authorities having to hunt for the attackers.
Surge in medical waste with millions of Covid-19 tests done daily in China
Shanghai city officials said the city of 25 million generated 68,500 tonnes of medical waste since March. In contrast, it generated 55,700 tonnes of medical waste in the whole of…
Beijing’s bar-linked Covid-19 outbreak is ‘ferocious’: Official
A total of 166 cases have been linked so far to the outbreak at the Chaoyang Heaven Supermarket Bar, which emerged last week.
China’s social security fund records steady expansion in 2021
The revenue of the fund topped 6.82 trillion yuan ($1.02 trillion) last year, soaring 34.6 percent from 2020, according to a statistical bulletin.
RMB treasury bonds to be issued in Hong Kong
They will be issued in four batches, with the first batch – including two, three and five-year bonds – worth 7.5 billion yuan going on sale on June 15.
Wang Yi to attend C+C5 foreign ministers meeting in Kazakhstan
The visit comes at the invitation of Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, said ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian.
After two months, a scarred Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdown ends
Shanghai’s ordeal has come to symbolise what critics say is the unsustainability of China's adherence to a zero-Covid policy that aims to cut off every infection chain.
Thousands quarantined after Beijing man breaks Covid-19 rules
After failing to follow the requirement to isolate, the man and his wife later tested positive for Covid-19 infection, prompting authorities to lock down 5,000 of their neighbours…