China’s rich and middle class want to flee and possible reasons
Recently, there has been a new movement among the Chinese rich and middle class called "run". This trend started last year but has recently returned. According to observers, after China endorsed the "common prosperity" drive, many rich people have already fled. The zero-COVID policy is just the final straw to overwhelm ...
Floods and droughts hit Southern and Northern China
China is facing a difficult situation with floods in the south and drought in the north this summer. South China has been hit by heavy rainfall since early May. As a result, numerous floods occurred and reservoirs are in danger of flooding in many places including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian. In contrast to ...
Phone of Hubei citizen seized after criticizing lockdown order online
On June 15, Yu Qian from Ezhou city, Hubei province, filed a reconsideration letter to the local authorities. He wanted his phone back, which has been seized after he posted online comments about the stay-at-home order in Echeng district. According to Chinese media Da Ji Yuan, when Echeng announced that it ...
Elders on crutches line up for hours in Shanghai banks; Zhengzhou depositors ‘red code’ nightmare
An unusual phenomenon has occurred in the Chinese banking industry in the past few days. Depositors at the gate of Shanghai Bank have to form long lines to get their numbers before they can do their transactions. After the cash crisis hit several banks in Henan province, the authorities allegedly used the ...
China gives verdict on the biggest counterfeit money scheme case
On June 18, the WeChat public account of the Heilongjiang High Court announced that it rejected the appeal and upheld the original sentences for 14 persons charged with printing counterfeit money. This case is the largest single case of counterfeiting cash since the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party. According to ...
Beijing converts 3 Olympic villages into quarantine sites
The Financial Times on June 17 reported that Beijing had converted three Olympic villages into quarantine facilities for Covid-infected patients and the close-contact cases. At the time of the Winter Olympics in February, around 2,900 international athletes were housed in these compounds isolated from the rest of Beijing. The newspaper also reported ...
Data shows China’s housing market remains distressed
The real estate market in China is still mired in a quagmire as the economy is in jeopardy. A spokesman for China’s National Bureau of Statistics said there had been some positive changes in the real estate market in recent surveys. However, the latest data shows that the property market is ...
Precious Sanxingdui gold scepter unearthed
Apollo News recently reported that new archaeological discoveries of Sanxingdui No. 7 and 8 sacrificial pits had been announced. According to South China Morning Post, the Sanxingdui archaeology site in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, shedding light on ...
Determined and desperate protestors in Kunshan, Shanghai
According to Chinese-language media Sound of Hope, a large-scale protest occurred on June 18 and 19 in Kunshan. Protesters called on authorities to reopen the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway after three months of inactivity. Sparked by previous sporadic protests, by the evening of June 18, a real large-scale protest took place in Huaqiao ...
Is the CCP using electromagnetic radiation weapons?
A flurry of complaints in Liaoning province, China, accuses the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of targeting neighbors persecuted for their differences with the regime with electromagnetic waves and radiation. The news stirred up the long-standing controversy that the Chinese people are frequently persecuted by CCP "brain control" and other high-tech methods, ...
‘Racism for sale’, a scandal that has not been settled yet
BBC reporter Runako Celina and her friends carried out a two-year investigation into the origins of videos of African children on Chinese social media. BBC Africa published Runako Celina's report titled "Racism for sale" on June 14, and it quickly became a hot topic. Chinese social networks spread videos about a ...
Three strange explosion sites at Shanghai chemical factory, residents rush to flee
On June 18, China News commented on the strange fire and explosion at the Shanghai Jinshan petrochemical complex in the early morning. The video shows three remote locations burning at the same time. After the explosions, images of Kim Son residents fleeing by car were posted online. On June 19, Sound ...
China tightens rules on social media, requires mobile apps to promote socialist values
The Chinese regime has further tightened its grip on social media activities by issuing new rules to restrict posting contents that are not in line with the regime's views. On Friday, China's cyberspace authorities announced they had added new regulations to existing internet posting and commenting rules. They noted that social ...
Delisting crisis brings rich man of Shanghai under radar
*ST Haiyi, formerly Lanhai Medical, faces delisting risk after it has been suspended from trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since early May. The company and its chairman Mi Chunlei are now under scrutiny from the market. According to Sina Finance, *ST Haiyi is an A-share listed company. On May 5, ...
Torrential rain and strong river flow cause landslides in Guangxi
Last week's torrential rain and high river levels caused severe flooding in Guangxi. This week, Guangxi experienced a mudslide disaster on Saturday due to the heavy rain the day before. In the early morning of June 18, a geological disaster occurred in Qundantun, Gudu Village, Liuzhou City, Guangxi. As a result, ...
China’s new aircraft carrier Fujian has three major flaws, lagging behind US carriers
The Chinese regime’s third aircraft carrier Fujian was launched, and China’s state media claims the Fujian outperforms its two existing carriers. However, many experts point out that the Fujian has three significant flaws. First, the US aircraft carrier is nuclear powered; the Fujian is conventionally powered Matthew Funaiole, a senior fellow at ...
Heavy rain in Guangxi causes road collapsed: 2 deaths, 2 missings
As reported by Xinhua, heavy rainfall on June 17 seriously affected many places in Rongshui county, Liuzhou city, Guangxi province. 2 people were killed, one was injured, and 2 lost contact in a roadbed collapse. The incident happened in a mountainous area with a large number of boulders mixed with muddy ...
Chinese jurisdiction bolsters Intellectual Property infringement across borders: Report
China is in a race for technological superiority over its rival economies. However, technology theft by the country remains a headache, and it is even more challenging for foreign competitors now that Chinese courts are also in the game. Rieko Michishita, a veteran China IP lawyer at Bird & Bird, told ...
Multiple explosions reported across China
1. Shanghai Petrochemical Department suffered multiple fires on June 18 At about 4 am on June 18, a fire broke out at the Shanghai Petrochemical Department’s ethylene glycol plant area, leading to multiple explosions at the same time. A netizen revealed that the incident occurred on the department’s 50th birthday. A Twitter ...
Number of depositors in China’s rural banks crisis reaches a record high. What to do with it?
More than 400.000 people could not withdraw their deposits in 6 rural banks in Henan and Anhui provinces of China, with savings reaching up to 180 million dollars. Two months have now passed, and the investigation is going nowhere. Furthermore, several bank depositors' health codes have suddenly turned red in recent ...
