The COVID-19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX got a boost Friday (Beijing time) when the Chinese foreign ministry announced that the country had officially joined the facility, Reuters reported.What … ( read original story …)
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Domestic travel over Golden Week boosts China’s economic recovery
Hundreds of millions of domestic tourists have boosted China’s economic recovery over its Golden Week national holiday, even as concerns linger over consumer spending. There were 637m trips in China … ( read original story…
Central banks sketch out digital currency as China forges ahead
A group of seven major central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve set out on Friday how a digital currency could look like to help catch up with China’s “trail blazing” and leapfrog private ……
China’s recovery isn’t as rosy as it appears — but there’s still ‘room for optimism’
Beijing wants to advertise the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong type of recovery, but that’s not most of China,” China Beige Book’s Leland Miller says. ( read original story …)
China Tourism Rebounds Over Golden Week but Still Below Last Year
Domestic tourism in China saw a robust rebound over the just-ended Golden Week holiday, encouraged by the country’s success in stamping out the novel coronavirus, although levels were still well short … ( read original…
Covax: vaccine global effort gets China’s support
Beijing joins initiative against ‘vaccine nationalism’ in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance … ( read original story …)
China polishes its image by joining WHO vaccine initiative
China will join a World Health Organization initiative aimed at ensuring fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines around the world as part of Beijing’s latest effort to steal a public relations march on … ( read…
China joins COVAX initiative for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
China said on Friday it has joined a global COVID-19 vaccine initiative co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO), becoming the biggest economy to date to pledge support to help buy and distribute … (…
Beijing pledges to make Chinese COVID vaccine a ‘global public good’
China has pledged to distribute any successful coronavirus vaccine it develops as a global public health good, signing up to the World Health Organisation’s COVAX platform rejected by the United … ( read original story…
In reversal, China joins global initiative to distribute coronavirus vaccines
China, along with the United States and Russia, had previously declined to join the World Health Organization-led program. ( read original story …)
China’s stocks and currency rally as traders return from holiday
China’s currency jumped by the most in two and a half years while the country’s onshore stocks gained on positivity over the world’s second-biggest economy as traders returned from a lengthy holiday. ( read original…
China joins COVAX coronavirus vaccine alliance
TAIPEI – China, which has four coronavirus vaccine candidates in stage 3 clinical trials, said Friday it is joining the COVID-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX. The country signed an agreement with … ( read…
China Joins WHO-Backed Global Coronavirus Vaccine Program
China is participating in a World Health Organization-backed vaccine effort, stepping in to fill a void in global health leadership created by the Trump administration. ( read original story …)
