Tag Archives: Shanghai

Visitors take more than 308 million trips during this year’s Spring Festival, the first major holiday since country dropped strict pandemic measures. Source link

Sales of nianhuo, Lunar New Year specialities, rose 30 per cent year on year on Alibaba shopping platforms Tmall and Taobao during the period from January 1 to 16. Source link

Zhu Xiaotong, who has been with Tesla since 2014, describes himself as ‘tenacious’, with reports showing him as being wholly committed to the company. Source link

He said the volume of patients in the emergency unit of his hospital has doubled to 1,600 people per day, 80 per cent of them Covid-related, with vulnerable groups such as the elderly or immunocompromised making up around half of these cases. The hospital expanded its emergency capacity from four …

A woman in China bought a ‘black magic’ ritual that fortune-tellers promised would borrow power from the devil to ‘heat up’ her former relationship. Source link

The past year saw wild swings in China’s experience with Covid-19, with periods of strict lockdown interspersed with stretches of relative normality. After public anger boiled over and the government suddenly changed course, though, it’s high time to draw this traumatic period to a close. Source link

Thailand wants Chinese authorities to investigate after a viral video appeared to show substandard durian from the kingdom being sold on a roadside in Shanghai. Source link

The programme reflects the extensive preparations of Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, ahead of hosting next year’s Asian Games, where esports will be a medal event. Source link

The conference, which started on Wednesday and concludes this Friday in the provincial capital of Hefei, is jointly organised by the Anhui government and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. More than 200 speakers from the global semiconductor industry are expected to take part in the three-day event. This …

Beijing’s economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first three quarters this year compared to the same period last year, while Shanghai’s recorded a 1.4 per cent decline, as China’s first-tier cities struggled under the stringent zero-Covid policy. Source link