Activity in China’s manufacturing sector held steady in September from the previous month, a Caixin-sponsored survey showed, as a power shortage and rising raw material prices dampened factory …
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A new superconducting cable, self-researched and produced in China, and designed for high-capacity power transmission to a business district in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was put into use on …
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In a paper published in 2013 just after Xi Jinping took power, Hong Kong media tycoon Yu Pun-hoi wrote optimistically about how the new Chinese president needed to take an “unambiguous stand against …
Chancellor: Evergrande is all China’s woes in one
Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called China’s economy “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable” 14 years ago. Whether he foresaw that China would one day be beset by a massive real …
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risk exposure with mainland China and tighten quarantine exemption rules, with the government carrying out a review of pandemic control measures in a bid to get the border between the two places fully …
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China kills three house cats infected with COVID-19
Three housecats in China that tested positive for the novel coronavirus have been euthanized by authorities as they work to curtail new outbreaks of COVID-19.
China’s vaccine push falters as many countries switch to mRNA shots
U.S. and Europe instead, as concerns mount about Chinese vaccines’ efficacy against the delta strain and the Western stranglehold on mRNA supplies grows looser. That preference may already be showing …
