Chinese health officials have reportedly begun vaccinating more than 1.4 billion citizens with an emergency COVID-19 vaccine. ( read original story …)
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China begins huge COVID-19 vaccine rollout, with doses reportedly already administered to 1 million citizens
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The economy-sapping shadow cast by Japan’s demographic decline holds sombre lessons for China … ( read original story …)
Joey Wat, CEO of China’s Largest Restaurant Company, Shares Lessons on Controlling COVID
That same day, I interviewed Joey Wat, the CEO of Yum China, the country’s largest restaurant company. She mentioned that there were just a small handful of new cases in Shanghai, the world’s biggest ……
‘I was a very bad lawyer’ but ‘banking suited me’, says SparkRaise founder Yeone Fok
Having attended Wellesley, Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard, the founder of ethical crowdfunding platform SparkRaise says, ‘I basically kept studying because I didn’t want to work’. ( read original story …)
Jack Ma’s Ant Group Ramped Up Loans, Exposing Achilles’ Heel of China’s Banking System
Partnering with the fintech giant has higher risks for smaller lenders, which are already on shaky ground. ( read original story …)
China reveals new generation of top-level government appointees, including an ex-copy machine salesman and fighter jet designer
A rural policy expert, a former copy machine salesman and a fighter jet designer are among China’s new generation of officials who have been appointed to key government posts. ( read original story …)
China-US relations: a clash of values that could ‘turn out badly’
The Chinese economy is growing while everyone else is shrinking, with Beijing on track to displace Washington in Asia, he says. ( read original story …)
Leak exposes how Beijing ordered under‑reporting of Wuhan coronavirus cases
The chaos, confusion and cover-ups that characterised China’s initial response to the coronavirus were laid bare last week as a grim anniversary passed: one year since the first confirmed case of a … ( read…
China Peddles Falsehoods to Obscure Origin of Covid Pandemic
To push the idea that the virus didn’t come from China, the government has misrepresented experts’ remarks and given dubious theories the veneer of science. ( read original story …)
Burner phones and banking apps: Meet the Chinese ‘brokers’ laundering Mexican drug money
Chinese money brokers based in Mexico “have come to dominate international money laundering markets,” U.S. prosecutors have said. ( read original story …)
China’s Perfect Diary woos cosmetics shoppers via social media
Yatsen Holding, the Chinese startup behind the fast-growing Perfect Diary cosmetic brand, owes its dizzying ascent to a laser focus on the social media generation. Yatsen nearly quintupled revenue in … ( read original story…
Chang’e-5: China’s unmanned moon probe delivers samples to orbiting spacecraft
Successful docking will be followed by orbiter separating and returning lunar material to Earth … ( read original story …)
China prepares large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines
Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work … ( read original story …)