Parts of Shenzhen returned to business as usual on Friday, as authorities say the Covid-19 situation there is now largely under control following a lockdown and two rounds of universal testing. This comes amid a spike in the number of new Covid-19 c...

President Xi Jinping will hold talks with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, on Friday. The Foreign Ministry said the two leaders will exchange views on bilateral relations and issues of common concern on Friday evening, Beijing time. The White House a...

Macau authorities said the SAR could enter a citywide lockdown if a large-scale Covid-19 outbreak happens there. The Macau government on Thursday announced a raft of measures to fight a potential community outbreak. Announcing the emergency pandem...

A mainland infectious disease expert said on Thursday that he believes China’s Covid-19 strategy has shifted to freeing up medical facilities for those who are most in need of treatment. Zhang Wenhong’s remarks came just days after mainland aut...

Companies in Shenzhen, that halted operations under the city-wide lockdown imposed on Sunday to tackle rising Covid-19 cases, will be allowed to resume work and production gradually by area and industry type, a local government official said on Thurs...

The number of locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on the mainland continued to drop on Thursday, to 1,226. That was a decline of more than 30 percent from the 1,860 reported the day before, after a peak in the latest outbreak of 3,507 on Tuesday. Th...

China continued to see a generally stable housing market in February, with home prices in 70 major cities showing only slight month-on-month increases, according to the Xinhua news agency, quoting official data. New home prices in four first-tier ci...

The mainland reported 1,860 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, down from 3,507 the day before. Jilin province remains the hardest-hit in the mainland's biggest outbreak since the pandemic began, with nearly 80 percent of the new infect...

Beijing said on Tuesday its stance on the Ukraine conflict is “completely objective, impartial and constructive”, and repeated assertions that the US is spreading misinformation over reports China had responded positively to a Russian request for...

Daily local Covid cases on the mainland have more than doubled as the country battles its biggest outbreak in two years fuelled by the fast-spreading Omicron variant. The National Health Commission on Tuesday reported 3,507 new locally transmitted ...

China and the United States said they conducted "candid, in-depth and constructive communication" over bilateral relations as well as international issues such as Ukraine on Monday. Yang Jiechi, a Politburo member and director of the Foreign Affairs...

The central government will ensure stable economic operations this year, and keep economic growth, employment and prices within reasonable ranges, state media quoted the cabinet as saying on Monday. The economy faces new downward pressures and diffi...

Snowstorms were set to hit parts of northern China from Monday to Tuesday, meteorological authorities said. Snowstorms will drop up to 10 centimetres in parts of Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang, according to the National Meteorologi...

The National Health Commission reported some 2,300 Covid-19 cases - 1,337 of them categorised as locally transmitted infections - across dozens of mainland cities on Monday as the fast-spreading variant commonly known as “stealth omicron” fuels C...

Shenzhen officials have warned that more coronavirus cases could be found during three rounds of universal testing for Covid-19, as they ordered everyone to stay home to curb the spread of the Omicron variant as soon as possible.  17 million people...

China placed all 17 million residents in one of its biggest cities under lockdown on Sunday, as virus cases doubled nationwide to nearly 3,400 and anxiety mounted over the resilience of its 'zero-Covid' approach in the face of the worst outbreak in t...

The mainland reported 1,938 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, the country's national health authority said on Sunday, up sharply from 588 a day earlier. Of the new cases, 1,807 were locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said...

The mainland reported more than 1,500 new local Covid-19 infections on Saturday, the most since the first nationwide outbreak in early 2020, as the Omicron variant prompted Beijing to introduce self-testing kits for the first time. China's current c...

The Omicron variant has forced the northeastern mainland city of Changchun to go under lockdown and Shanghai to close schools. The National Health Commission detected 703 domestically transmitted asymptomatic infections for Thursday, up from 435 a d...

Macau permanent residents will receive planned cash handouts of 10,000 patacas from April, it was announced on Friday. Non-permanent residents will get 6,000 patacas. The SAR's government has been dishing out cash annually since 2008. The handout...