Month: April 2022

Having your hair cut accompanied by a live violin performance may sound extraordinary. But this is what occurred in a Shanghai neighborhood, with two videos of the event going viral. Within hours, the two videos got more than 20,000 thumbs-ups, each, on the stylist’s WeChat video...

A quick response to any new COVID-19 case outside quarantined areas will be crucial in preventing a rebound in infections in the community as Shanghai has cut off community transmission of the coronavirus, according to the city’s health authorities. “The possibility of finding positive infections among...

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...

Students from Nord Anglia Chinese International School Shanghai recently created 14 artworks in a mark of gratitude to local deliverymen, providing a warm follow-up story to a video made by Shanghai Daily in mid-April, when many couriers worked long and hard amid the city’s COVID-19 lockdown....

Shanghai has achieved the milestone of three consecutive days with no new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas, with the city’s daily infection number continuing to fall. “All 16 districts of Shanghai have already achieved zero-COVID at the community level,” Zhao Dandan, deputy director of the Shanghai...

Shanghai yesterday announced that the city has cut off the community transmission of COVID-19 in all its 16 districts. This latest progress in containing the virus again shows that China must unswervingly implement its epidemic response policy and consolidate its gains in the fight against COVID-19....

Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot do without, according to an ancient Chinese philosopher. In fact, “pleasure” and “music” share the same Chinese character 乐, pronounced as le for pleasure and yue for music. Percussionist Wang Yinrui tries to cheer up neighbors...

SPARE a thought for the legions of long-haul truck drivers who form the lifeline of highway commerce in China. Shanghai’s long coronavirus lockdown has left many of them stranded in the city — sleeping in their vehicles, cooking meals at the roadside and even drinking water...