New locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on the mainland have jumped by more than 50 percent from Tuesday. The National Health Commission reported 166 new local infections on Wednesday, many of which are either in Tianjin or linked to the massive north...

The mainland's consumer price index (CPI) climbed 0.9 percent last year, well below Beijing's annual inflation target of approximately 3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. Consumer prices rose 2.5 percent and 2.9 percent in 2...

China's producer price index (PPI), which measures costs for goods at the factory gate, rose 10.3 percent in December from the same month last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Wednesday. That is down from the 12.9 perc...

Another 58 local Covid-19 infections, possibly linked to the outbreak of the Omicron variant in Tianjin, have been reported in Anyang City, in the north of Henan Province. The Xinhua News Agency said 84 locally-transmitted cases have now been confir...

The outbreak of the highly-transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant has spread from Tianjin to the central province of Henan. Two local Covid-19 infections in Anyang City, in the north of Henan, were confirmed to be caused by the Omicron variant, l...

Authorities in Tianjin have ordered citywide Covid testing after 20 people tested positive for the virus, authorities said on Sunday. Xinhua News Agency reported that the infections were found on Friday and Saturday in the Jinnan district and at ...

The mainland reported 165 confirmed coronavirus cases for Saturday, up from 159 a day earlier, its health authority said on Sunday. Of the new infections, 92 were locally transmitted, according to a statement by the National Health Commission, from ...

The National Health Commission on Saturday reported 95 new local coronavirus cases. It said 46 were reported in Shaanxi, 43 in Henan, four in Zhejiang, and two in Guangdong. Also reported were 64 new imported cases in 10 provincial-level regions,...

At least 20 people were trapped after an explosion on Friday caused a building housing a government canteen to collapse in Chongqing. The blast at 12:10pm was caused by a "suspected gas leak" in a canteen and caused a neighbourhood committee buildin...

The National Health Commission has confirmed another 116 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections in its daily report on Friday, according to the Xinhua New Agency. Shaanxi - where the provincial capital Xi'an remains in lockdown - accounted for 57 o...

More cities and areas in Henan have resorted to tough curbs as the central province reported 64 new locally-transmitted coronavirus infections, 50 of them in Xuchang. Nine asymptomatic carriers were also identified, most of them in the provincial cap...

The National Health Commission has confirmed another 35 cases of locally-transmitted Covid-19 in Shaanxi, where the huge city of Xi'an has been locked down for nearly two weeks. In total 41 community infections were reported today, according to the ...

The death toll from a landslide that hit Bijie City in Guizhou province on Monday has climbed to 14, Xinhua News Agency quoted local authorities as saying. The landslide took place at a construction site at around 7pm on Monday, Xinhua said. . As of...

More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in the country's latest mass lockdown. Beijing has pursued a "zero Covid" approach with t...

Fifteen people were injured when a shallow earthquake hit southwestern China on Sunday afternoon and shook the popular tourist city of Lijiang. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Yunnan Province at 3:02pm, according to the provincial seismological ...

Three mainland astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station chatted with youngsters from Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing via video conference on Saturday to mark the start of 2022. The three - Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu - arrived at ...

The mainland reported 231 new confirmed coronavirus cases for December 31, up from 195 a day earlier, the country's health authority said on Saturday. Of the new infections, 175 were locally transmitted, according to a statement by the National Heal...

President Xi Jinping has on Friday described 2021 as "a year of exceptional significance", in his New Year address aired on New Year’s Eve. “We have lived through landmark events in the history of our Party and our country. At the historical co...

Chinese authorities have banned footballers from getting tattoos and instructed national team players who have been inked to remove or cover them up to set a "good example for society". A growing number of high-profile Chinese players have been spor...

The mainland on Monday recorded 182 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday. Of the new local cases, 180 were reported in Shaanxi, and one each in Zhejiang and Yunnan, the commission...