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COVID fatigue, distress and anger has set in across China but its citizens are powerless to end a policy that has crippled large parts of its economy.

Investors looking for signs of loosening may have been disappointed by China's critical plenum, but all eyes are now on the reshuffle of the Standing Committee unveiled Sunday for future political direction.

You may be done with COVID, but China isnt.

With the 20th party congress less than two weeks away, Premier Li Keqiang’s latest economy-boosting directives to local authorities ‘will have some effect, but don’t expect too much’, researcher says.

China has endured two months of scorching heatwaves and drought that have affected power supply in the country. Spooked by future energy security, Beijing is reinvesting heavily in coal with disastrous implications for climate change.

On the whole, with the arrival of the peak season in September and October, domestic ore prices has upward momentum. Therefore, SMM expects that the capacity utilisation rates of domestic mines will increase slightly.

A small but growing market for veganism is emerging in China.

Two months of scorching heatwaves and drought plunged China into an energy security crisis.

A vegan version of a signature dish from western China is available in Beijing.