Month: April 2022

HANGZHOU’S Binjiang District is expected to be one of the world’s top high-tech zones by 2035, capable of competing with Shanghai’s Zhangjiang High-Tech Park and Beijing’s Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park. Talent is crucial in achieving that aim. Binjiang has upgraded facilities and infrastructure in industrial parks to attract more professionals from home...

Shanghai reported a new COVID-19 asymptomatic case at the community level on Tuesday despite the continued declining trend in the city’s total infection numbers. A 28-year-old man tested abnormal during regular nucleic acid screening in his community in Juyuan New Area in suburban Jiading District. The...

More than 16,000 travelers, seeking to leave Shanghai through Hongqiao Railway Station, have been temporarily accommodated — usually overnight — in shelters provided by the government since mid-April. Due to surging travel demand and low availability of train tickets, especially early this month, a large number...

While many out-of-towners are finding ways to leave Shanghai, Fu Jun has bucked the trend. Shortly after the recent COVID-19 resurgence took hold in Shanghai, the young designer living in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, made up his mind to pitch in. “I’m here...

China will broaden its tax credit rebates, postpone social security payments and loan repayments, roll out new investment projects and take other steps to support the economy, the State Council said yesterday. Chinese policy-makers have pledged to step up support for the world’s second-biggest economy, which...

The new Chinese Super League season will begin on June 3 in three centralized hubs as professional football makes it return despite the country’s ongoing battle to suppress the COVID-19 pandemic. The cities of Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Haikou in south China’s Hainan Province...

Seven suspects have been taken into custody for allegedly selling pandemic passes, Shanghai police said yesterday. Hongkou District police began its investigation last week after receiving a tip that someone was selling pandemic vehicle passes for as much as 4,000 yuan (US$600) each on the Internet....

Shanghai residents are required to scan the “venue code” or receive checks from the “digital sentry” — a comprehensive code-scanning and temperature-check machines — to enter or leave public venues and communities. Some public sites will also require the 48-hour negative polymerase chain reaction test result,...