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The country's last official deaths were reported on Dec. 3, Reuters said. The government eased restrictions in its “zero-Covid” policy amid slowing growth in ...

The company has been authorized to sell Pfizer’s antiviral Covid treatment drug Paxlovid, [China GDP Poised To Outperform Global Growth In 2023 — PwC](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/12/10/china-gdp-poised-to-outperform-world-average-in-2023--pwc/?sh=6f6eda05a793) [Global Supply Chain Shocks Open New Room For U.S.-Taiwan Business Ties](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/11/30/global-supply-chain-shocks-open-new-room-for-us-taiwan-business-ties/) [here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/12/10/china-stocks-climb-again-investors-see-more-benefits-than-risk-in-covid-policy-shift/).) The benchmark Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong has gained 8% in the past month, though eased back 0.7% this week. [here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2022/11/23/protests-flare-in-china-at-worlds-largest-iphone-factory---reports/?sh=ee1388519395)). The government eased restrictions in its “zero-Covid” policy amid slowing growth in the world’s No. 2 economy and public protests.

China's FC-1/JF-17 'Thunder' multi-role fighter aircraft, jointly produced with Pakistan, is believed to have been a top contender in US$664 million plan.

The Chinese leadership has decided to focus on ensuring stable economic growth in 2023 by prioritizing the recovery and expansion of consumption, ...

For this year, China had earlier set its growth target at around 5.5 percent. "We must focus on stabilizing growth, employment and prices to keep the economy operating within a reasonable range," the leaders were quoted as saying, highlighting the need to address difficulties college graduates face finding employment. The Chinese leadership has decided to focus on ensuring stable economic growth in 2023 by prioritizing the recovery and expansion of consumption, state-run media said Friday, as the world's second-largest economy has been slowing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Workers in protective gear dismantle a temporary shelter on Dec. 1 outside a neighborhood that had been placed under lockdown. China's “Covid zero” stance was ...

[millions of deaths](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-15/china-s-covid-death-toll-could-top-1-million-hk-study-shows?sref=fSOf3OlP). Instead of freeing up consumers, the [empty streets](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-16/covid-unleashed-in-beijing-shows-rest-of-china-what-comes-next) of Beijing showcase that spending— [already poor](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-15/china-s-economic-activity-weakened-in-november-amid-covid-surge)—is bound to worsen, possibly for months to come. It’s even more difficult to lay out the implications.

A post-Putin era could be sooner than expected and raise challenges for Beijing.

“The possibility of a prolonged war is the biggest strategic challenge and grimmest uncertainty for the world today,” Zhu said, discussing “how Russia and Ukraine’s conflict will end”. “China has to continue its efforts in pushing for peaceful means to solve the problem, showing such a stance is crucial for our global image.” Zhu also called for China to support the millions of Ukrainian civilians who were suffering in the depths of winter without light, water and heat. China must brace for a weaker or even a “post-Putin” Russia as the prospect of a prolonged war in Ukraine increases, Chinese experts have warned.

China will eye rapid economic growth next year, said economists when attending the 2023 Global Times Annual Conference on Saturday, as a slew of measures to ...

Yao said that China's economy growth in 2022 will be at 3 to 3.5 percent. Yao said a country's economy growth is contributed by capital accumulation and total factor productivity. In terms of the country's foreign trade, Wei noted that next year, foreign trade will still make a more important contribution [to the country's overall economic development], as the high-quality opening-up will lead to a new leap in China's business environment and a more market-oriented and internationalized Chinese capital market system will take shape next year.

2023 could see over 1 million COVID-19 deaths in China, per Reuters' analysis of a new report. The projected surge in deaths comes in the wake of China's ...

[refused to use western vaccines](https://www.businessinsider.com/china-wont-use-western-covid-19-vaccines-protests-2022-11) in its fight against COVID-19, instead relying on its homegrown inoculations. Now, there are large swathes of China's over-80s population that are at risk of dying from COVID-19. "It's not as if the only place in the world that's at great risk is China. Speaking about the year ahead, Murray suggested that many places will see waning immunity against the more recent Omicron variants worldwide, but China was the biggest concern. - The projected surge in deaths comes in the wake of China's rollback of its zero-COVID policies earlier this month. [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer), an organization from the University of Oxford.

The two-day meeting on plans for the country's economic performance next year has prioritized increasing domestic demand by boosting consumption in order to ...

Legal and institutional arrangements must be made to ensure the equal treatment of private enterprises and state-owned enterprises, according to the meeting. "I think we should do everything possible to help create jobs," said Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the Economic Policy Commission at the China Association of Policy Science. [京ICP备16065310号](http://beian.miit.gov.cn) Xu Hongcai, the researcher with the China Association of Policy Science, said the meeting has reflected the problem orientation of the economic decision-making, and also actively responded to people's livelihood concerns, sending "a strong and positive signal" to the market and all the sectors of the society. In his opinion, the Central Economic Work Conference is "straightforward, frank and honest," and has "made a full estimation of the serious challenges next year." Dong Yu, executive vice-president of China Development Planning Institute at Tsinghua University, who has participated in the drafting of documents for the Central Economic Work Conference many times, said this year the press release is "particularly relevant" by highlighting the importance of "seeking truth from facts, respecting the law (of the economic work), and sticking to systemic and bottom-line thinking." [supporting the platform economy](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-07/China-s-top-market-regulator-issues-anti-monopoly-guideline-XGPZ6wFjsQ/index.html), [resolving real estate risks](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-26/China-s-commercial-banks-step-up-credit-support-for-property-market-1fgI1OLtNWE/index.html), and some incorrect views about the private economy, said Luo Zhiheng, chief economist at the research institute of Yuekai Securities. "It is significant in terms of stabilizing the expectations of market players and boosting the confidence of the private sector," said Xu. The meeting has made "very decisive and direct" responses and deployments to the market's and the society's key concerns, such as the COVID-19 epidemic, how to boost confidence in development, As China pursues basic socialist economic systems, it has long been the country's commitment to "unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector" and at the same time "unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector," a guideline that has been reiterated during the annual economic meeting. [annual Central Economic Work Conference](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-16/China-holds-key-economic-meeting-to-plan-for-2023-1fOwyYJjt5u/index.html), widely regarded as the wind vane for China's economic development and policy direction, has concluded in Beijing. [a report ](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-09-19/China-contributed-to-over-30-of-world-economic-growth-in-2013-2021-1drXUSvo83S/index.html)released by the National Bureau of Statistics in September.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday ...

The Chinese capital last reported a fatality on Nov. "We've fewer cars and workers now," a staffer at Miyun Funeral Home told Reuters by phone, also speaking on condition of anonymity, adding that there was a mounting backlog of demand for cremation services. A sharp surge in deaths would test authorities' efforts to move China away from endless testing, lockdowns and heavy travel restrictions, and realign with a world that has largely reopened to live with the disease. Reuters could not immediately establish if the deaths were due to COVID. Funeral homes and crematoriums across the city of 22 million are also struggling to keep up with demand as more workers and drivers testing positive for coronavirus call in sick. China's health authority last reported COVID deaths on Dec. As of Dec. Did they not tally them or they just aren't announcing them?" Three of the numerous chimneys billowed smoked continuously. "Why can't these statistics be found? The parking security operator and the owner of an urn shop at the funeral home building, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the number of deaths was above average in this period and was more when compared to the period before lifting of most pandemic curbs on Dec. [research institute](/world/china/new-covid-model-predicts-over-1-mln-deaths-china-through-2023-2022-12-17/) said this week that the country could see an explosion of cases and over a million people in China could die of COVID in 2023.

Compared with 1989, the Chinese government's response was notably moderate: Police dispersed demonstrations with relatively little violence, although this ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) founder Morris Chang (張忠謀) has long been known for his sharp remarks and assessments of the global semiconductor industry. The cracks in the CCP’s facade of competence at home and trustworthiness abroad have become increasingly manifest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This leaves China at risk of losing its international friends and the party of breaking its unwritten contract with its citizens: Stay out of politics, and we will take care of you. Japan is the main supplier of tools and chemicals. This pattern is likely to continue until enough of the elderly are vaccinated, and the government and public accept the increased risk of infection and death. The Netherlands is home to the leading maker of photolithography equipment. The structuring of the semiconductor industry worldwide is a result of the division of labor and cooperation among countries under the conditions created by globalization. Talk of “de-Taiwanization” in relation to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC) establishment of factories in the US is a false, unrealistic and meaningless proposition that appears to have ulterior motives. China maintained “zero COVID-19,” he was appointed to an unprecedented third term as the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) general secretary, and the leadership of the CCP Standing Committee, including Li, was replaced by his loyalists. However, the path out of “zero COVID-19” could be long and difficult — and not only from a health perspective. China’s leaders always knew that they would eventually have to abandon their “zero COVID-19” policy, and that the longer they waited, the more painful the transition would be. It has scrapped some of its harsher COVID-19 policies, such as the requirement to quarantine in state facilities.

BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Despite the optimization of its epidemic response, one thing remains unchanged -- the principle of putting the people and their ...

Always putting people's lives and health first, China's epidemic response measures are science-based and effective. China is among the countries with the lowest rates of severe illness and mortality. The effective epidemic response in the country owes much to its institutional strengths and people-centered philosophy.

Researchers worry that ill-prepared healthcare systems, low rates of vaccination among the elderly and ineffective vaccines will contribute to a massive and ...

[protesters who were arrested](https://time.com/6240747/shanghai-china-protests-zero-covid-fear/) have shared reports of human rights violations and hostility in police custody. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that there have been [311,113 confirmed deaths](https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn) in China from COVID-19 since January 2020. [Reuters’ analysis](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/17/new-covid-model-predicts-over-1-million-deaths-in-china-through-2023.html) of new data from [the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation](https://covid19.healthdata.org/china?view=cumulative-deaths&tab=trend), concludes that COVID cases in China will peak around April, at which point there will have been 322,000 COVID-related deaths and a third of the country will be infected. [A Reminder That Extremism Is Always Short-Lived](https://time.com/6241486/modern-hanukkah-traditions-extremism/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) Only 65% of people over the age of 80 have been fully vaccinated and just 40% received their booster, a concerningly low rate for the country’s most vulnerable demographic. Under China’s “zero-COVID” restrictions, movement was highly regulated in China through mandatory isolation at designated facilities and regional lockdowns during outbreaks. [the Alternative Currencies That Came Before Crypto](https://time.com/6241831/alternative-currencies-history/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) [This App Is the Newest Way to Treat Nightmares](https://time.com/6241506/treat-nightmares-app-nightware/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) [The 10 Best Korean Dramas of 2022](https://time.com/6240643/best-korean-dramas-netflix-2022/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216)to Watch on Netflix Leung’s team estimates more than 900,000 deaths from the virus if China continues with its current plan to ease restrictions and that such extensive infections could result in new mutations. [But They Cannot Do It Alone](https://time.com/6241786/ukrainian-youth-may-save-democracy/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) [The 49 Most Anticipated Movies of 2023](https://time.com/6241650/most-anticipated-movies-2023/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221216) 7, people with COVID-19 that show mild or no symptoms are now permitted to recover at home, rather than a hospital. [105,045 confirmed cases](https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn) of COVID-19 in China on Dec.

A comfortable environment with freedom to explore is key for China to attract more outstanding talent from around the world. Professor Fu Xiaolan discusses ...

A comfortable environment with freedom to explore is key for China to attract more outstanding talent from around the world. Professor Fu Xiaolan discusses how China can improve on building an innovation-friendly environment on StraightTalk. StraightTalk: China can improve on building innovation-friendly environment [StraightTalk: China can improve on building innovation-friendly environment](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/18/WS639e49f0a31057c47eba4e52.html) [Millennium-old Buddha statues unearthed in ancient Chinese market](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/17/WS639d6d37a31057c47eba4e0c.html) [Fact Check: The sooner to get infected, the better?](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/17/WS639d5716a31057c47eba4dfb.html) [More anti-pandemic efforts urged for holidays](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/17/WS639d08b1a31057c47eba4d95.html) [Courts take action to protect rights of maritime crews](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/17/WS639d0399a31057c47eba4d7b.html) [Insurance to subsidize birth of Hangzhou test-tube babies](//www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/17/WS639d036ea31057c47eba4d74.html)

China's economic growth will accelerate in next year as stimulus policies take effect, CCTV reported, citing a senior planning official.

Despite acknowledging the security challenges posed by China, John Kirby, US National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, has ...

The property industry is a pillar of the economy and has a huge impact on supply chains, government finances and financial markets, and must be kept stable, he ...

More members of Gen Z in China are choosing fur babies – and especially cats – rather than human babies, making the pet industry a resilient and ...

Spooked by a historic drought, local authorities in China have renewed controversial plans to dam the country's biggest freshwater lake.

There are just over 1,000 left in the wild. "But there are no fish or shrimp for them to eat. But were they to go ahead, the sluice gate would disrupt the lake's natural ebb and flow with the Yangtze, potentially threatening the tidal flats the birds feed on, said Lu Xixi, a geography professor at the National University of Singapore. At nearby Zhupao Hill, a popular bird-watching spot, about 90,000 migratory birds were spotted from October to early December, up from about 62,000 birds in the same period last year. Many birds flock to nearby fields and farmers have been told to leave a bit of their paddy unharvested for the birds," Chen said. But the looming spectre of droughts -- which are becoming ever more frequent and severe in the area thanks to climate change -- has altered the calculus.

Health experts spoke after a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping in November in which the two sought areas for ...

“I would be happy to further discuss participation of China in Project Orbis.” However, he continued, “the sticking point is the confidential agreement that would need to be signed. “Collaboration in the fight against cancer represents an important opening for the U.S. “One of the problems that I've noticed as far as being an oncologist for almost 40 years now is that our clinical trials have become increasingly and increasingly more complex,” Pazdur said. “We would welcome China to participate in Project Pragmatica.” President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping at the G20 gathering in Bali,” Asia Society CEO and former Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd told the online gathering. “Many times this delay was in the matter of months, but many times it was years that patients were delayed getting important cancer drugs,” he said. “I hope the two sides can strengthen communication on this issue, and the drafting and signing of a confidentiality agreement,” he said. Richard Pazdur told the meeting organized by New York-headquartered Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, or MSK, and Guangzhou-based Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group, or CTONG, that member nations in Project Orbis sought progress by “asking pharmaceutical industries to do simultaneous submissions to countries where there was a significant delay” in new drug approvals. “We welcome new partners,” Pazdur said, “However, we do have limitations, and some of these are just financial and logistic applications. Removing those obstacles would help to “promote simultaneous regulatory reviews between the two countries, and accelerate cancer drug approvals,” Bi said. The eight are the U.S. Jingquan Bi, Executive Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges and a former commissioner of China Food and Drug Administration, expressed hope at the gathering held on Dec.

At 19:00 on December 16th, the first match of China Kickboxing Premier League (CKL) started in Wuzhishan, Hainan! This is by far the highest-level fre.

Time is worth the efforts; youth is worth the dreams. For the one-year China Kickboxing Premier League, please stay tuned! The competition is broadcast live exclusively on Youku!

The number of Covid-positive dead arriving at Beijing's funeral parlors and crematoriums is rising, according to media reports, despite China not reporting ...

Reuters reported funeral homes in Beijing being [overwhelmed](/news/terminal/RN1B1ABQ99TT). Staff at a Beijing crematorium told the Financial Times they cremated the bodies of at least [30 Covid victims](https://www.ft.com/content/73eba78a-1bdb-4b32-be3e-b0329470b946) on Wednesday, while a relative of one of the [dead](/news/terminal/RN1PCMTVI5MO) said their family member had been infected with the virus, according to the Associated Press. [abandoned](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-14/china-s-new-covid-approach-is-to-let-it-rip-healthcare-analyst-says) the stringent curbs that have kept the virus at bay for much of the past three years.

Chinese companies are reeling from a coronavirus wave that is immobilising workforces, threatening to close down factory production lines and bringing chaos ...

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China hasn't recorded a death from Covid-19 since Dec 4. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Modelling by the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation shows fatalities could top 1 million through 2023 as [the abrupt reversal on Covid Zero](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-announces-further-easing-of-covid-19-measures) results in a surge. The official Covid-19 death toll was revised up by some 1,290 fatalities in April 2020, boosting the tally in one go by 40 per cent. The official rhetoric has shifted from demonising Covid-19 to downplaying it, with one top medical adviser telling college students last week the virus could be described as a “cold”. People outside Dongjiao told the news agency at least two of the dead cremated there died testing positive. Companies from Volkswagen to oil-refining giant Sinopec are preparing for significant outbreaks. [China’s hospitals, especially outside major cities, are under-resourced](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/medical-staff-in-chinas-hospitals-say-covid-19-ripping-through-their-ranks) and its unclear whether the country has sufficient stockpiles of anti-virals and other Covid-19 medications. A wave of Covid-19 fatalities would undermine the Chinese government’s narrative that it has handled the virus better than other countries, and that it chose this moment to pivot on scientific grounds. Workers at others – in Shunyi, north-east of central Beijing, and the satellite town of Huairou – declined to answer questions on Covid-19 deaths or procedures. [closely aligned his rule with the Covid Zero policy, ](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-signals-it-s-sticking-to-zero-covid-policy-despite-protests)which he used to tout China’s superiority over the West, in particular the US – which has seen more than 1 million official Covid-19 deaths. When contacted on Sunday, the NHC had no comment on the reports of Covid-19 fatalities and stretched funeral parlours in Beijing. Staff at a Beijing crematorium told the Financial Times they cremated the bodies of at least 30 Covid-19 victims on Wednesday, while a relative of one of the dead said their family member had been infected with the virus, according to the Associated Press. [The Chinese capital is in the grip of its worst Covid-19 wave yet,](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-succumbs-to-covid-19-after-xi-jinping-lifts-pandemic-restrictions) after officials nationwide abruptly abandoned the strict curbs that have kept the virus at bay for much of the past three years.

Streets in major Chinese cities were eerily quiet on Sunday as people stayed home to protect themselves from a surge in COVID-19 cases that has hit urban ...

Wu said severe cases in China had declined over the last years, and that vaccination that has already taken place offered a certain degree of protection. Funeral homes and crematoriums across the city of 22 million are also As part of the easing of the zero-COVID curbs, mass testing for the virus has ended, casting doubt on whether officially reported case numbers can capture the full scale of the outbreak. Cases could multiply across the country if people follow typical travel patterns of returning to their home areas in a mass transit movement for the Lunar New Year holiday next month. The strategy had been championed by President Xi Jinping. China is also yet to officially report any COVID deaths since Dec.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Helen-Ann Smith, Asia correspondent for Sky News, about the growing wave of COVID-19 in China.

This projection, for example, that there could be 800 million cases in the next few months, that there could be a million deaths over the next year - do people have any sense of the scope of it? And for a decent part of 2020 and 2021, that was the case. You had to have your health code, and in order to get your health code green, you had to have a COVID test every 48 hours or so. I mean, are people that you've spoken with - do they have a sense of the kinds of projections that we're hearing outside of the country? SMITH: Well, that is a fascinating question because this is a really, really major challenge for the government. There's a joke going around that the only people in the city that don't have the virus is expats who had it back in their home countries previously and have some sort of immunity. MARTIN: What else can you tell us about how people are adjusting to this across the country? So in the absence of any official reporting that anybody can have confidence in from the government about the true extent of this, what are people saying? But unfortunately, we don't know exactly how bad things are because the government have essentially stopped reporting the numbers in the way that they were. SMITH: It's very difficult to say exactly how many people have COVID in this city because the numbers aren't being reported in the way that they have been. But what we do know anecdotally from living here is that there is an enormous wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping through this city at the moment. That's according to projections from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

In a quiet revolution, lawyers, police officers and former judges are offering legal advice online to the aggrieved, pointing out that many local ...

China is currently in the first of an expected three waves of Covid-19 cases this winter. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese New Year celebrations in the country start on Jan 21. Funeral homes and crematoria across the city of 22 million are also struggling to keep up with demand. China reported 2,097 new symptomatic Covid-19 infections on Saturday. The strategy had been championed by President Xi Jinping. Speaking at a conference in Beijing on Saturday, Dr Wu said the current outbreak would peak this winter and run in three waves for about three months, according to a state media report of his speech. Cases could multiply across the country if people follow typical travel patterns of returning to their home areas in a mass transit movement for the Chinese New Year holiday in January.

Covid In China: Staff at a Beijing crematorium told the Financial Times that they cremated the bodies of at least 30 Covid victims on Wednesday.

China has reported just 5,235 Covid deaths since the pandemic started in late 2019, with the first known cases in Wuhan. The number of people dying due to Covid in Beijing is rising, according to media reports, despite China not reporting a fatality from the virus for two weeks. Yang Lianghua, a former People's Daily reporter, died on December 15, aged 74, while Zhou Zhichun, a former China Youth Daily editor, died on December 8, aged 77, according to financial magazine Caixin. Earlier, local media reported this week that two former Chinese state media journalists died in the capital Beijing in recent days due to Covid-19. Covid deaths are being prioritized for cremation, the employee was reported to have said. Reuters also reported that funeral homes in Beijing being overwhelmed.