Monthly Archives: May 2022

2022-05-01: News Headlines

____ (2022-05-01). China reiterates call for peace between Russia, Ukraine through talks. ecns.cn China has always supported Russia and Ukraine to overcome difficulties and continue negotiations, and welcomes all efforts by the international community conducive to promoting peace talks," Zhao said.

____ (2022-05-01). Newly developed COVID vaccine approved for clinical trials in China. ecns.cn Shanghai-based high-tech biotechnology company, Stemirna Terapeutics, has domestically developed a COVID-19 vaccine based on mRNA technology and has been recently approved for clinical trials.

____ (2022-05-01). Xi stresses healthy development of capital in China. ecns.cn Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday called for efforts to regulate and guide the healthy development of capital in China in accordance with the law and give play to the positive role of capital as an important factor of production.

____ (2022-05-01). China launches new satellites. ecns.cn China successfully sent five satellites into planned orbit from a platform in the East China Sea at 11: 30 a.m.The Jilin-1 Gaofen series satellites were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket and have successfully entered their planned orbit.

____ (2022-05-01). China's manufacturing PMI down in April. ecns.cn BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) — The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector came in at 47.4 in April, down from 49.5 in March, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Saturday.

____ (2022-05-01). China's non-manufacturing PMI down in April. ecns.cn The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's non-manufacturing sector came in at 41.9 in April, down from 48.4 in March, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Saturday.

____ (2022-05-01). Beijing's makeshift hospital put into use. ecns.cn Beijing has officially started to use the Xiaotangshan Hospital, which was used solely for SARS patients in 2003 and COVID-19 cases in 2020, on Sunday, in a bid to contain the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the city, said a senior official of the municipal government.

____ (2022-05-01). Beijing ups restrictions to contain latest COVID-19 flare-ups. ecns.cn The Chinese capital city of Beijing intensified restrictive measures against COVID-19 on Saturday to best reduce cross-infection as high mobility is expected during the five-day Labor Day holiday starting from Saturday.

____ (2022-05-01). Stricter measures in Beijing over holiday. ecns.cn Medics take swab samples from residents for nucleic acid testing at Balizhuang subdistrict in Chaoyang district, Beijing, April 29, 2022."The city has completed two rounds of nucleic acid testing for everyone living or working in 11 districts this week, in addition to Chaoyang district, which began testing earlier."

____ (2022-05-01). UNDP and UNEP co-host policy dialogue on environmental protection. ecns.cn Jointly organized by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme, a high-level policy dialogue on environmental protection was held in Beijing on April 28, 2022.

____ (2022-05-01). HKSAR gov't continues to provide free COVID-19 testing service for elderly, targeted groups. ecns.cn The Food and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Saturday that it continues to provide free COVID-19 nucleic acid testing service for eligible persons of high-risk or high-exposure targeted groups and all elderly people aged 60 or above.

____ (2022-05-01). Mainland medical supplies against COVID-19 arrive in Hong Kong orderly. ecns.cn Anti-pandemic medical supplies from the Chinese mainland have arrived in Hong Kong in good order and have been distributed to people in need through various channels.

____ (2022-05-01). Shanghai has steady decline in cases. ecns.cn Shanghai announced on Sunday that it achieved phased results of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control thanks to the joint efforts from all over the country and the city's residents in the past month.

____ (2022-05-01). Shanghai enterprises on track to resume operations. ecns.cn Enterprises in Shanghai are on a steady track to resume operations and the city's smaller businesses stand to receive more government support to withstand this round of COVID-induced lockdown.

____ (2022-05-01). Shanghai sees continuous drop in COVID numbers. ecns.cn Shanghai has seen continued drops in the number of both confirmed and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 as it is making all efforts to transfer and quarantine as many patients as possible.

____ (2022-05-01). Market gets confidence boost from combined policies. ecns.cn The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index went up 2.4 percent to more than 3,040 points and the Shenzhen Component Index closed about 3.7 percent higher at more than 11,020 points.

A Guest Author (2022-04-30). U.S. aims to push China into war over Taiwan — a guest commentary. workers.org By Jorge Cadima Article first published in Avante, the weekly newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, April 21. Translation: John Catalinotto. It is evident that the U.S./European Union wants to prolong the war in Ukraine as long as possible. But warmongering is also evident at the other end of the . . . |

scorinoco (2022-04-30). US Poised to Continue Its Failed Policies Against China, Says Analyst Daniel Patrick Welch. orinocotribune.com The United States is poised to continue exactly the same failed policies against China that have brought it to a possible confrontation with the rising power, according to US writer and political commentator Daniel Patrick Welch. | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on April 26 that he will address in the coming weeks a long-awaited US national security strategy to deal with the rise of China as a great power. | "I will have an opportunity I think, very soon in the coming weeks to speak publicly and in some detail about the strategy," Blinken said at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. | The admi…

teleSUR, JCM (2022-04-30). Decenas de desaparecidos tras derrumbarse un edificio en China. telesurtv.net El presidente Xi Jinping ordenó a todos los elementos involucrados en las operaciones de rescate realizar su mayor esfuerzo.

____ (2022-04-30). 'Generation Z' lends dramatic drive to Chinese fad economy: report. ecns.cn China's "Generation Z" has strong cultural confidence, and the Chinese culture is popular among them, which drives the Chinese fad economy, according to a report released by JD Research Institute for Consumption and Industrial Development on Thursday.

____ (2022-04-30). (W.E. Talk) Buried in the Western Regions with a Long History, Where Is Jingjue City?>. ecns.cn Since ancient times, Xinjiang has been a multi-ethnic region with many religions living side by side. Throughout Xinjiang's long history, the various ethnic groups living in the region have mingled and learned from one another, creating a pluralistic pattern.

____ (2022-04-30). More people now in lower-risk areas for COVID-19 in Shanghai. ecns.cn Shanghai has readjusted its three-tiered classification of COVID-19 risk areas according to recent nucleic acid screening results, and more people are now in areas with lower risk, local authorities said Friday.Meanwhile, the number of people in "prevention areas," neighborhoods without reported infections over the past 14 days, is 12.38 million, up by over 4.53 million.

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