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BEIJING, May 8 — President Xi Jinping has offered state backing for tech, infrastructure and jobs to revive China’s economy, but analysts warn growth will continue to wilt until Beijing drops its rigid virus controls. Two and a half years since the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan, China is...

Factories have suspended production. Truckers are stuck on highways. Containers are piling up at ports. Shipping vessels have ...

SHANGHAI - The Shanghai government said on Thursday (April 7) it was trying its best to improve the distribution of food and essential goods to locked-in residents, responding to growing public discontent as Covid curbs stretched into the 11th day. China's financial hub has fallen largely silent after the city imposed harsh curbs to stem the spread of Covid under...

Shanghai on Friday announced a record 21,000 new cases and a third consecutive day of Covid testing as a lockdown of its 26 million people showed no sign of easing and Chinese cities tightened curbs - even in places with no recent infections.

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BEIJING - China will not give up on its zero-tolerance policy towards local Covid-19 cases any time soon, some experts said, as the policy has allowed it to quickly quell local outbreaks, while the virus continues to spread outside its borders. To stop local cases from turning into wider outbreaks, China has developed and continually refined its Covid-fighting arsenal --...

World News - BEIJING: China will not give up on its zero-tolerance policy towards local Covid-19 cases any time soon, experts said, as the policy has allowed it to quickly quell local outbreaks, while the virus continues to spread outside its borders. To stop local cases from turning... Read more at www.tnp.sg

The policy has allowed China to quickly quell local outbreaks.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

With no exit strategy articulated, and just as the rest of the world reopens, US business leaders have warned Beijing that it risks accelerating the outflow of foreigners from China.

Containing the COVID-19 outbreak came at a huge cost in terms of earnings and employment. And no one is taking a harder hit than Chinas tens of millions of migrant workers.