Shanghai News

Changchun, capital of northeast China’s Jilin Province, will remove the citywide closed management from today, the city’s headquarters for COVID-19 prevention and control said yesterday. The city, a manufacturing hub and national commodity grain base, will resume normal life and production in an orderly manner, the...

No new, more transmittable Omicron sub-variants have been found in the city, the Shanghai Health Commission has said. The World Health Organization has drawn attention to new sub-variants of Omicron beyond the BA.2 mutation, such as the BA.4 and BA.5, and expressed concern over the possibility...

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...

Private vehicles will be allowed back on the roads in Shanghai’s outlying Jinshan District from today. With the coronavirus resurgence now stable and under control in Jinshan, private cars will be allowed to drive within the district, Cao Jie, deputy director of Jinshan, told the city...

Swedish battery group Northvolt said yesterday it has launched its “gigafactory” in northern Sweden, the first of its kind to be undertaken by a European company on the continent. Intended to compete with US electric car giant Tesla and Asian producers of lithium-ion batteries, the factory...

With the New Year just around the corner, the catering industry in Shanghai is celebrating with new dishes and witnessing a booming number of reservations. The time-honored Xing Hua Lou restaurant in Huangpu District, the oldest Cantonese-style eatery in the city, has all its private dining...

Shanghai let some of its 25 million residents venture out for light and air after reporting a second day of zero infections outside of quarantine areas. While much of the city remains in lockdown, Shanghai officials, striking a confident tone, said yesterday that curbs on some...

While battling against the recent flare-ups of COVID-19 in parts of the country, China has been steadily promoting work resumption in the pandemic-affected areas. With the pandemic situation gradually easing in Shanghai, major enterprises in the eastern Chinese metropolis have resumed stable production, as key industrial...