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COVID-19 pandemic, when disturbing images started pouring in from Wuhan. Gradually, the world got to know about the dangers of the coronavirus, which wreaked havoc across nations by killing thousands. Once again, the rising cases of respiratory illness in China have made people worried.

China's health ministry on Sunday urged local authorities to increase the number of fever clinics as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses in its first full winter since easing COVID-19 restrictions. The spike become a global issue last week when the World Health Organization asked China for more information, citing a report on clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children by the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. China and the WHO have faced questions about the transparency of reporting early in the pandemic, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. The WHO said on Friday no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the recent illnesses. National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng said on Sunday the surge in acute respiratory illnesses was linked to the simultaneous circulation of several kinds of pathogens, most prominently influenza. «Efforts should be made to increase the number of relevant clinics and treatment areas, appropriately extend service hours and strengthen guarantees of drug supplies,» Mi told a news conference. «It is necessary to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control in key crowded places such as schools, childcare institutions and nursing homes, and to reduce the flow of people and visits.» Cases among children are appearing especially high in northern areas like Beijing and Liaoning province, where hospitals are warning of long waits.

China’s law enforcement agency in Wuhan arrested 27 individuals involved in a sophisticated crypto money laundering and crime operation involving 1 billion yuan, approximately $140 million.

Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation, in a ground-breaking development, unveiled the 'world's fastest internet' network, claiming that the network can transmit data at 1.2 terabits per second, reported South China Morning Post. The report said the companies in collaboration with Tsinghua University built over 3,000 kilometers of network linking Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou through an optical fiber system that they claim can transmit data at an astonishing speed of 1.2 terabits (1,200 gigabits) per second, surpassing the most existing major networks by more than ten times.

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The government has launched the park to bolster the e-CNY ecosystem and payment solutions using the digital yuan. Residents are incentivised to move to the park for up to three years of free rent and loans. Commercial banks are being offered up to 20 million yuan to settle there, and start ups are offered up to 50 million yuan.

The government has launched the park to bolster the e-CNY ecosystem and payment solutions using the digital yuan. Residents are incentivised to move to the park for up to three years of free rent and loans. Commercial banks are being offered up to 20 million yuan to settle there, and start ups are offered up to 50 million yuan.

China opened an industrial park dedicated to developing the digital yuan ecosystem on Oct. 11, according to Chinese press reports. This is the first such park dedicated to the central bank digital currency (CBDC), which is also referred to as the e-CNY.

South China Morning Post. In a recent paper written with colleagues, Shi who is also popularly known as “batwoman," warned that the world must be prepared for another disease like Covid-19 because “if a coronavirus caused diseases to emerge before, there is a high chance it will cause future outbreaks," she said as quoted by the SCMP.

batwoman" due to her extensive research on animal-origin viruses, has issued a stark warning about the potential emergence of a new coronavirus in the future. As per a TOI report, Shi, who heads the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, emphasized the global necessity to prepare for such outbreaks, drawing insights from the harrowing Covid-19 pandemic. With over two decades of experience in coronavirus research, Shi and her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology recently published a paper in July 2023.

World Health Organization urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. «We're pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings — to urge Beijing to co-operate,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the newspaper. The WHO chief's comments come as health authorities and pharmaceutical companies across the world have been racing to update vaccines to combat newer emerging coronavirus variants. Ghebreyesus has for long been pressing China to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table. The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting it spread in a live animal market before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.

Chedun, a working-class neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Shanghai, the signs of an anemic economy are all around. The factories that once drew workers from around the country have moved away. Those that remain have slashed wages. Around the affordable eateries and motley shops where workers once crowded, employees eagerly latch onto anyone passing by. “No one has money now, it’s obvious,” Cherry Qian, 25, said as she sat inside the electronics store she manages. But there’s one place the slump isn’t as obvious: in the government’s account of it. A gulf has emerged between the Chinese economy as many Chinese are experiencing it, and Beijing’s narrative of it — and that gulf is only widening. For many ordinary Chinese, one of the worst economic slowdowns the country has faced in decades has translated into widespread pessiYouth at a job fair in Wuhan mism and resignation. But state media and officials continue to declare that any challenges are blips. Concerns about the economy, propaganda outlets have insisted, have been inflated by Western politicians and media outlets engaged in “cognitive warfare.” One social media account backed by China’s state broadcaster released a video that purported to investigate how foreign news outlets had cherry-picked statistics that predicted higher economic growth, just so they could later say China fell short. When the reality has proved too inconvenient, another approach has simply been to conceal it, as when Beijing this month stopped publishing the youth unemployment rate, which had been at a record high.

weaker than expected, and property developers are caught in an unprecedented wave of defaults and restructurings. China’s trusts, which channel funds from investors to infrastructure, property and other opportunities, are exposed to both developments. Although Xinhua’s bankruptcy has been relatively straightforward, a bigger blow-up may be on the way at Zhongrong, one of the country’s largest trusts, which missed payments to clients in mid-August.

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China-based technology companies are reportedly working on tech that would give Chinese soccer fans the ability to watch the FIFA World Cup within the Metaverse.

In this week’s newsletter, read about how trademark applications for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse have grown in the United States. Check out how NFT marketplace OpenSea has launched a tool that can enforce NFT royalties on-chain and how the Chinese city of Wuhan backpedaled on its NFT plans while still pursuing the growth of metaverse economies.

The Chinese city of Wuhan had reportedly shelved its aspirational nonfungible tokens (NFTs) plans amid growing regulatory uncertainty around the crypto and Web3 technologies in the country.

BEIJING — Chinese tech company Baidu said Monday it has become the first robotaxi operator in China to obtain permits for selling rides with no human driver or staff member inside the vehicles.

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping headed a meeting of top leaders on Thursday that emphasized the country should stick to its «dynamic zero-Covid» policy, and warned that economic consequences would follow if it doesn't, according to state media.

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