US-China conflictIn 2023, in an effort to revive the sluggish economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government implemented a variety of stimulus measures, such as interest rate cuts, tax cuts for small and medium-sized enterprises, and the issuance of local government bonds. But ...
On 8 January 2023, after 3 years of pandemic control, China changed its management of COVID-19, applying measures against class B infectious diseases instead of Class A infectious diseases. This signaled the end of the dynamic zero-COVID policy and the reopening of the country. With a popula...
Concerns have been expressed that the dominant Omicron variant of the COVID virus could generate a new mutant as it spreads in China. According to Dr Jasper Chan, a clinical associate professor at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University
China’s GDP in 2021 was 8.1%. China’s lockdowns have also disrupted supply chains and other nations’ economies worldwide. 2023 Outlook: Observe and Shift 2023 is shaping up to be the year of “observe and shift”: China-watchers will be observing what is happening very closely and ...
China will downgrade management of COVID-19 to Class B and cancel quarantine requirements on inbound travelers from Jan. 8, 2023, China's top health authority announced recently.In a statement released late Monday, the National Health Commission (NHC) renamed the Chinese term for COVID-19 from...
confirmed global COVID-19 cases at the time of writing on January 20, 2023, had exceeded 663 million, and 6.71 million deaths had been reported in more than 220 countries, areas, and territories; of this total, 11,001,439 confirmed cases and 34,375 deaths were reported in China [7]. ...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic alarmed the public and initiated the uptake of preventive measures. However, the manner in which the public responded to these announcements, and whether individuals from different provinces responded similarly during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, remains large...
This study is one of the few nationwide studies in China focusing on college students’ SP and its influencing factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infectious disease pandemics have a lasting impact on mental health38,39. The following study showed that psychological distress slowly declined over...
After international investment banks and financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Barclays and Natixis, upwardly revised their 2023 forecasts for China, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) also lifted its growth forecast of China's economic growth rate this year."Growth ...
Mi Feng, the spokesperson for the National Health Commission, speaks at the press conference, January 3, 2023. /CFP China stresses its open and transparent attitude on sharing COVID-19-related information and vows to keep doing so, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday at a press con...