Month: April 2022

China’s dynamic zero-COVID policy, which has proven successful and effective, is safeguarding the sustainable growth of the world’s second-largest economy. Shanghai announced on Tuesday that it had cut off the community transmission of COVID-19 in all its 16 districts. This is encouraging progress for residents to...

For house pets whose owners are away at quarantine sites, a temporary home is offered to them at Laoximen Subdistrict in downtown Huangpu District. In an empty house left behind by relocated households on Jiangyin Street, a small pet shelter has been furnished and welcomed its...

Shanghai’s market authorities are pulling out all stops to help businesses resume normal operation interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic resurgence and get through the tough period. Since April 6, 106 companies have obtained business licenses through the whole paperless application, review and issuing process in the...

Nearly 9,000 nucleic acid sample collection sites have been set up across Shanghai to serve the increasing number of employees returning to work as the city’s pandemic gradually wanes. More than half of the polymerase chain reaction testing sites have opened mainly for workers maintaining urban...

What sectors are prioritized in terms of applying for production resumption? A: Currently, applications for production resumption are primarily accepted from companies in five sectors: those ensuring the city’s normal operations, anti-pandemic supplies, important function guarantee, continuous production and supporting infrastructure. The local government is also...

John Lee was elected as the sixth-term chief executive designate of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region yesterday. The 64-year-old former chief secretary for administration of Hong Kong won 1,416 votes by Election Committee members in the first chief executive election in the city since the...

Parks in Shanghai have been closed due to the lockdown but who’s taking care of the animals residing there? At Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park in the Pudong New Area, for instance, more than 700 marine life keepers decided to stay on site during lockdown to take...

More than 800 young volunteers in Shanghai have been organized to pick up and dispense medicines for residents under lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 872 volunteers recruited from the city’s youth federation have been divided into three volunteer teams to pick up medicines at local...