#Shanghai will accelerate the development of a socialist, modern international metropolis with global influence over the next five years, the city's Party Secretary Li Qiang said at the opening ceremony of the ongoing 12th Communist Party of China Shanghai Congress today.
Welcome home! China's #Shenzhou XIlI space mission crew has landed at Dongfeng Landing Site safely.
#Shanghai has announced updated follow-up prevention and control measures. Based on the results of previous screenings and risky levels, local areas are classified as either "locked down," "controlled" or "precautionary."
The first group of three-level areas has been determined, and #lockdown will be lifted on more than 7,000 communities and sites after reporting zero positive cases in the past two weeks.
A full list will soon be publicized in every district.
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why necessary to stick to the dynamic zero-COVID polic
#Shanghai’s #lockdown continues. Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney from ECNU, who is also a former public health officer with US CDC, explained why it is necessary to stick to the dynamic zero-COVID policy, especially in Shanghai.
#lockdown Shanghai's airports, railway stations and international cargo transports will operate normally during the city's staggered lockdown on either side of the Huangpu River through April 5.
Boeing plane crash in China
#Boeing plane crash in #China: Latest updates
All-out recovery operations are underway, but none of the people onboard have been found so far.
Flight MU 5735 was carrying 132 people, 123 passengers and 9 crew. The plane crashed into the mountains of Tengxian Country at 2:28pm yesterday. The aircraft was a nearly 7-year-old Boeing 737-800 passenger jet. The plane's operator China Eastern Airlines suspended all of its Boeing 737-800 aircraft after the crash.
Boeing China said it is in contact with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and technical experts are prepared to assist with the investigation led by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The Administration has called for screening hidden risks to boost civil aviation safety.
China Eastern Airlines has set up 9 teams to deal with the emergency and help relatives of the passengers who were onboard. A temporary waiting area was set up for relatives and friends of the passengers at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport where the flight was expected to land.
"But when you deliver food into a user's hands and there is that much gratitude in their eyes... I don't feel scared anymore." Many thanks to all the "everyday heroes"🛵
The Chinese men's 4x100 meter relay team at the 2021 #TokyoOlympic Games has been awarded the bronze medal after Britain's team was stripped of its silver medal, said the International Association of Athletics Federations.
It was the first Olympic medal for #China in a sprint relay. China's final tally for the Tokyo Olympics improved to 38 gold, 32 silver and 19 bronze medals.
Christie's held its first auction since the pandemic started last night. Buyers from Shanghai, London and New York paid a total of 222 million yuan for pieces by Chagall and Jean-Michel Basquiat, while Picasso’s Dormeuse failed to sell.
Foreign owned auction houses are now allowed to auction pieces that were sourced overseas but created by artists who died after 1949. Also part of the new policy, is infinite renewals of the six-month temporary entry permission for bonded overseas cultural artifacts in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
The city is also planing the establishment of an international trade center for artifacts and art work. Artifacts from outside of China can now be bonded and shown in exhibitions in the country.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the #ShanghaiCommunique by China and the United States during US President Richard #Nixon's visit to China. The Shanghai Communique was the first joint statement outlining the basis of the relationship between the two countries. Reporter Zhang Yue was at the anniversary event and tells us more. Embassy of The People's Republic of China in the United States
