Tonghua vows to strengthen pandemic prevention measures
Authorities in Tonghua, a city in Northeast China’s Jilin Province that has been hit hard by COVID-19, vowed to strengthen prevention measures especially in its rural areas for the upcoming…
New regulations tackle dubious content, excessive spending in livestreaming sessions
Internet livestreaming platforms need to put a reasonable ceiling on single virtual consumption items and single user contributions, according to new livestreaming management guidelines released late Tuesday by seven Chinese…
China has administered 40.52 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for key groups
China has administered 40.52 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for key groups, as of the end of Tuesday: National Health Commission of China This is a developing story. We will…
NGO calls for Spring Festival celebrations free of wild animal consumption
The China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) appealed to the public to say no to wild animal consumption in a proposal it released on Wednesday to encourage people to spend the…
China to further open civil aviation industry
China is set to further open its domestic civil aviation industry capping foreign investment access limits in only certain areas including public air transport, general aviation, and civil airports, officials…
Chinese tech firm employees receive generous annual bonuses before Spring Festival
China's employees in large tech companies are receiving generous annual bonuses from their bosses, as those companies saw revenues surge on the back of China's robust economic recovery and growing…
Chinese firms able to guarantee domestic and international vaccine transport
As a growing number of COVID-19 vaccines come onto the market, officially or approved for market with conditions, transport of vaccines became new concerns in China and in the world.…
COVID-19 transmission routes in Wuhan yet identified; virus may not be passed from bat to human; Huanan seafood market may not first place for outbreak: WHO mission
The discovery of the viral sequence of coronavirus suggests the virus originated from zoonotic transmission, but the host is yet to be identified. Sequence diversity appeared in the early Wuhan…
10 million newborns registered in China in 2020, falling below warning level, experts warn
Experts warned that the birth rate in China has crossed a warning level after a recent report from the public security authorities showed that the country registered only 10 million…
Lab incident hypothesis extremely unlikely to explain introduction of virus to humans: WHO expert
The most likely pathway for the COVID-19 transmission is the virus jumping to humans through an intermediate host, said Peter Ben Embarek, a Swiss food safety scientist leading the WHO…