Shanghai News

A video of Shanghai deliverymen spending nights under Wuning Road Bridge recently went viral, highlighting the difficulties of the city’s food-distribution network during the coronavirus lockdown that began in late March. Enforcing pandemic control and prevention measures while guaranteeing food supplies has proven a delicate balance...

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...

Residents can lodge an appeal and submit proofs, such as a hospital discharge certificate, if their Suishenma health code shows the wrong colors, according to the Shanghai Big Data Center. They can dial the city’s service hotline 12345 or make an online appeal on the Suishenban...

Stock markets mostly retreated yesterday as a “Santa Claus rally” showed signs of fatigue amid lingering fears over the Omicron variant and uncertainty about economic prospects for 2022. COVID-19 cases have surged across the world, prompting governments to impose new measures to limit contagion while the...

The understanding about and vaccination rate for common infectious diseases among Chinese seniors are still low, according to a survey report released yesterday, the National Vaccination Day. The survey, conducted by the Chinese Association of Geriatric Research, polled more than 4,300 people and found that many...

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...

The list of the city’s locked-down, controlled and precautionary areas has been updated based on results of the latest screenings, Wu Qianyu, a senior official of the Shanghai Health Commission, said yesterday. The number of residents in newly designated locked-down areas, where positive cases have been...

UNTIL we’re liberated from the confines of this unprecedented spring of 2022, many of us are killing time by snacking. Some snacks are healthy. Nuts, fresh and dried fruits and pickled veggies all have their nutritional and digestive benefits. But let’s face it, there comes a...