China is limiting the torch relay for the Winter Olympic Games to just three days amid coronavirus worries, organisers said Friday. The flame will be displayed only in enclosed venues that are deemed “safe and controllable,” according to officia...

China reported on Friday the lowest daily tally of local confirmed Covid-19 cases in nearly two months, after a national strategy to quickly curb flare-ups forced worst-hit cities to lock down affected communities and cut business activity. China re...

Beijing has ramped up efforts to curb Covid-19 infections, ordering checks among cold-chain firms and urging residents to cut unnecessary gatherings, as the capital reported an uptick in local infections just over two weeks before the start of the Wi...

A hotel worker in Shenzhen has tested positive for Covid-19. She was among 55 new locally transmitted infections confirmed by mainland authorities on Tuesday, down from 127 a day earlier. Authorities in Shenzhen said the patient is a cleaner in a h...

President Xi Jinping warned on Monday that confrontation between major powers could have "catastrophic consequences" in a speech to world leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum. For the second year in a row the face-to-face gathering of political and...

China's birth rate dropped to a record low in 2021, data showed on Monday, extending a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three children. Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, repla...

The National Health Commission on Monday reported 223 new confirmed Covid-19 cases for January 16, up from 119 a day earlier. Of the new infections, 163 were locally transmitted, according to the mainland's health authorities, up from 65 a day earli...

China's central bank on Monday cut the borrowing costs of its medium-term loans for the first time since April 2020, defying market expectations, to cushion any economic slowdown. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said it was lowering the interest r...

China’s global trade surplus surged to US$676.4 billion in 2021, likely the highest ever recorded by any country, as exports jumped 29.9 percent over a year earlier despite semiconductor shortages that disrupted manufacturing. The country’s trad...

A woman in Zhongshan, just to the north of Macau, has tested positive for Covid-19. The Xinhua News Agency said the 24-year-old sought treatment in a local hospital on Wednesday and returned a positive nucleic acid test early Thursday morning. Shenz...

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...