Along the Great Wall, extra security guards have been deployed to deter rowdy tourists. Hotel bookings in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, have risen 600 percent from the same period last year. In Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began late last year, visitor demand for the city’s Yellow Crane Tower […]
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SHANGHAI — With the coronavirus pandemic making international vacations all but impossible, Chinese citizens are heading to domestic destinations during the National Day holiday that starts Thursday, giving the country’s tourism industry a much-needed boost. Upward of 600 million trips will be made within the country during this year’s seven-day holiday, […]
By Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh YIWU/SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – At the Yiwu Fuye Christmas factory in eastern China, workers are stitching and testing out Santa Claus toys, checking they play a Christmas tune at the press of a button. But the jingles are the only seasonal cheer in the […]
Wuhan – HECTOR RETAMAL /AFP China’s economic recovery reached new heights as retail sales rose above 2019 levels last month for the first time this year. Shoppers’ enthusiasm pushed sales up by 0.5pc compared with August of last year, though this is not yet enough to make up for lost […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press) Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of China’s few remaining outspoken critics of President Xi Jinping and the communist government, was taken from his home in Beijing by police on Monday morning. Close friends of Xu’s who spoke with […]
Hand-picked by Condé Nast’s chief content officer Anna Wintour, Margaret Zhang is Vogue China’s new editorial director. Vogue Portugal released the news on Wednesday evening. More from WWD “I am so delighted that Margaret is our new editor-in-chief of Vogue China,” said Wintour. “Her international experience, exceptional multi-platform digital expertise […]
China is facing the worst resurgence of the coronavirus since it quashed nearly all of its cases months ago, adding pressure to the rollout of vaccines to its vast population. Amid this pressure is recent news from Brazil that a Chinese-developed vaccine showed significantly lower efficacy rate in very mild […]
Yang Huaiding was an unknown 40-year-old warehouse keeper at a Shanghai steel factory earning 51 yuan (US$7.80) a month in 1990. Today, he is fondly known as “Millionaire Yang” in the folklore of China’s stock market. The Shanghai native made his first million from dabbling in the initial batch of […]
Text size A NIO EP9 autonomous electric vehicle on display during the 2020 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition at China International Exhibition Center on Sept. 28, 2020, in Beijing, China. Getty Images China’s government has thrown $100 billion in subsidies at its domestic electric-vehicle industry over the past decade, according to […]
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. kicks off the world’s biggest 24-hour shopping binge Wednesday, an annual frenzy of consumption for hundreds of millions that this year will also serve as the best barometer so far of China’s post-pandemic recovery. Singles’ Day debuted in 2009 and has grown over a […]