During the Monday morning rush hour, traffic in Beijing surged by about 90% from a week ago — to "heavily congested" levels, according to Baidu data. The rebound in social activity in Beijing over the ...

As of Monday, the negative impact of China's Covid controls on its economy fell to 19.3% of China's total GDP — down from 25.1% a week ago, Nomura's Chief China Economist Ting Lu and a team said in a ...

As the world moved on from pandemic restrictions earlier this year, China doubled down on its strategy of trying to eliminate the coronavirus within its borders. In the name of “zero covid,” 1.4 ...

BEIJING — Chinese authorities on Saturday announced a further easing of COVID-19 curbs with major cities such as Shenzhen and Beijing no longer requiring negative tests to take public transport. The ...

Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz is once again stirring controversy — this time by appearing to defend the Chinese government’s stringent COVID-19 lockdowns that have kept millions confined to ...

BEIJING--COVID-19 cases sharply escalated in Guangzhou and other major Chinese cities, official data showed on Tuesday, with ...

China's citizens in Beijing are locking themselves down as the COVID-19 virus spreads in the country's capital. The Hang Seng China Enterprises index adds 0.39% Wednesday, paring December’s rally to 7 ...

New government data shows that growth for the year fell far short of Beijing’s goal. With Covid curbs lifted but the pandemic’s course uncertain, hope and fear cloud the forecast. By Keith Bradsher ...

SINGAPORE—Inflation in China slowed sharply in November as widespread Covid-19 lockdowns battered spending, emphasizing the economic cost of a stringent Covid strategy that the government has now ...

The Chinese fashion and luxury market has had a rough year. Waves of strict lockdowns throughout 2022, especially the two-month-long one in Shanghai, wreaked havoc on fashion spending. In the six ...

They'd like you to forget, but at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic many Western public health experts praised the draconian measures that have now brought thousands of furious Chinese protesters ...

As readers of this column know, Beijing needed to inject emergency liquidity into its financial markets more than a year ago when the giant property developer Evergrande first announced that it could ...