Shanghai News

Burundi: The name does not immediately evoke centuries-old forests sheltering elusive chimpanzees, or sandy beaches lined with palm trees that stretch along one of the largest lakes in the world. Instead, the small, landlocked nation located in the heart of Africa’s Great Lakes region has often...

Four Metro and 273 bus lines in Shanghai will restart operations on Sunday to connect downtown districts, airports, railway stations and hospitals, the city government announced yesterday. Lines 3, 6, 10 and 16 will be the first of the city’s Metro network to resume service, Vice...

As Shanghai steps up resumption of businesses after containing the recent COVID-19 resurgence, the coastal city, a major transportation hub, has seen its container throughput recover to more than 80 percent of normal capacity. According to Shanghai International Port Group, the city’s daily container throughput reached...

Shanghai will offer a package of 140 billion yuan (US$21 billion) to help businesses deal with COVID-19 pandemic difficulties. The package includes tax and rent cuts or exemptions, cash subsidies, as well as financial and material assistance, city officials said. Other measures include a public service...

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....