Delivering utmost thanks with artworks
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Delivering utmost thanks with artworks

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....
Pairing assistance drives economic development in western China
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Pairing assistance drives economic development in western China

HANGZHOU HAS forged new business partnerships with 12 counties in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze and six counties in the city of Guangyuan in western China’s Sichuan Province since it began pairing assistance with these two regions in April last year. Gong Zhaolin Poultry and Fungus Ecological Farm, located in Guangyuan’s Hongyan Town, was opened last October in...
Online interpreters on call help expats navigate pandemic
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Online interpreters on call help expats navigate pandemic

When Samuel Gonzalez, a Spaniard living in suburban Qingpu District, wanted to know about the COVID-19 pandemic situation in his community, he could not communicate with the neighborhood committee because of the language barrier. However, he made a call on the “Trans On” application. With help...
Local parcel deliveries slowly gain pace as pandemic eases
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Local parcel deliveries slowly gain pace as pandemic eases

The capacity of Shanghai’s postal and courier services has been restored to one-sixth of the normal level as the city’s COVID-19 resurgence situation continues to improve. More than a million parcels are being delivered every day as most courier firms have been authorized to resume operations,...
Pigeons spur food for thought
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Pigeons spur food for thought

More than 500 pigeons living in central Shanghai’s People’s Square are an attraction to both residents and tourists in the city — but how are they faring during the COVID-19 pandemic? Bai Wei, the man in charge of the pigeon station at the square, said this...
Jinshan inks deals on 9 industrial projects
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Jinshan inks deals on 9 industrial projects

Deals on nine major industrial projects worth hundreds of millions of US dollars were signed yesterday in Shanghai’s Jinshan District. Alibaba plans to set up a line-up of 100,000 servers as part of its intelligent manufacturing project fueled by cloud computing. The Chinese tech giant will...
COVID symptoms persist, study claims
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COVID symptoms persist, study claims

The longest follow-up study to date on COVID-19 showed that two years after infection, half of the patients who were admitted to hospital still have at least one symptom. The study published yesterday in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine revealed that nearly 1,200 participants in China...