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Chinese megacity limits outdoor lighting as record heat strains gridHangzhou, home to major companies like Alibaba, has banned nonessential landscape lighting to conserve energy amid extreme heat. With tempe...
Shanghai lifts home-buying curbs to boost property sectorShanghai eases property buying rules amidst a real estate crisis, reducing residency requirement to 3 years and minimum down payment to 20%...
Two Chinese megacities lift home purchase curbs to attract buyersHangzhou and Xian lifted home purchase limits to revive the real estate market impacted by the pandemic and borrowing rules. The move aims ...
Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surgeCoughing, groaning, and gasping for breath, elderly Covid patients crammed hospital corridors in Shanghai on Tuesday as a wave of Covid-19 ...
China records drop in new daily COVID casesOn Monday, China posted a record daily high of 40,347 cases - 3,822 symptomatic and 36,525 asymptomatic infections, which China counts sepa...
Xi Jinping Step Down: Protestors call for Chinese President, Communist Party to resign amid strict Covid restrictionsViolence-filled rallies have recently broken out from Zhengzhou to Guangzhou in response to Covid restrictions and snap lockdowns, which ha...
COVID cases rise in Shanghai, other Chinese cities; preventive steps strengthenedLocal infections have risen to their highest since August this week, and the uptick is coinciding with increased domestic travel during the...
China's factory activity contracts unexpectedly in July amid COVID flare-upsThe official non-manufacturing PMI in July fell to 53.8 from 54.7 in June. The official composite PMI, which includes both manufacturing an...
China pledges further COVID-19 aid to Southeast AsiaChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations that China had already del...
Former top Chinese Communist official jailed for life for bribery: State mediaSun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member and party chief of the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, was found guilty of taking over 170 mil...
China is building a megacity 'Jing-Jin-Ji' that will be larger than all of JapanIn its latest undertaking, the Chinese government has announced plans to make Beijing (current pop: 20 million) the center of an 82,000 squ...
China's urbanisation increases to 52.57% in 2012China's urban population accounted for 52.57% of the total population in 2012, up 1.3% points from a year earlier.
China makes bus travel free to encourage public transportIn a bid to encourage people to choose public transportation, China has waived bus fares and offered discounts on metro fares from today.
- China to create world's largest mega city with 42 million people
The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland which accounts for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy.
- Paypal to help set up e-commerce hub in China mega-city
US online payment service Paypal has agreed to help set up an international e-commerce hub in southwestern China as more foreign companies ...
- Chinese soft drinks maker beats PepsiCo in court over recipe
A court last Friday ordered PepsiCo China Investment Co to stop selling Tianfu Cola and to return the recipe to the Chinese company, the Sh...
- China's property prices slow in June
Property prices in China rose at a slower pace in June from a month ago, government data showed Monday, in a further sign that Beijing's ef...