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Expats who have received work permits in other GBA mainland cities can apply for the same type of work permit directly in Guangzhou without submitting the required documents again. The process trim is announced by Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau in a notice on work permits recognition of foreign professionals across all the Chinese mainland cities in GBA. The whole application process will be conducted online, with no paper documents needed for this step. After the approval, applicants of the category A work permit can get their new certificate immediately, while those of category B and C need to submit paper documents as required. With a valid visa, expats can apply for the work permit directly after being employed in Guangzhou. For foreign scientific and technological talents, they can have part-time jobs with the permission of their employers and after putting on records in Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau. The notice also states that the age and work experience limits will be extended for high-end foreign professionals and foreign talent in high-tech field. A more than two-year work permit will be granted to those eligible applicants. 65 years old is the age limit for foreign scientific and technological…

Wuhan is one of the best places to see cherry blossoms in the country. To share the beautiful scenery with people who cannot visit these places in person, an online concert was held on March 20, showing lovely night views of the blossoming season in Wuhan. The concert was live-streamed by nearly 40 media platforms such as the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV News, xuexi.com, and Changjiang Daily. The one-hour live stream started with the chiming of the Hankou Customs House clock. The camera then shifted to the concert at the East Lake Cherry Blossom Garden. Bathed in moonlight, performers presented folk music under the cherry trees featuring the guzheng (Chinese plucked zither) and the flute. They also gave traditional Chinese dance performances. More than 70 million people tuned into the online concert. One netizen left this message: "Hope I will have a chance to visit my favorite cherry blossoms and beautiful scenic spots in Wuhan next year."Original link

Twenty international students from the Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics（ZUFE) were issued warnings after violating the government enforced COVID prevention and control requirements, by visiting other cities and provinces without completing the appropriate check-in requirements upon returning. The first group was seven students, reported to have “concealed and delayed reporting their location,” violating the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control requirements of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics and COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control regulations. The regulations are enacted by the School of International Education and Studies, in caution, control and prevention of the epidemic period, which requires a daily-health check in and prior approval to leave Hangzhou. Another thirteen students were the second batch of international students who broke the same regulation. All twenty were issued awarning, which consists of a mark on their records and disqualifies the students for any scholarship for the academic year 2022/2023. Let this serve as awarning for all students and residents to abide by government regulations for asafer environment and speedier recovery against COVID-19 prevention methods. Source: ZUFEOriginal link

China Eastern plane carrying 132 passengers crashed in Guangxi forested hillside. China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 (Flight 5735) was flying from the Southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong but unfortunately fell down on earth in Guangxi province. The airplane caught fire. The reasons and number of deaths are not confirmed yet and rescuers have not seen any signs of survivors. Chinese Airlines possess a good safety record, the last major plane crash took place almost 12 years ago. Aviation Standards and Air Safety have improved widely in recent 2 decades. China’s last major plane crash took place in 2010 when a flight from Harbin crashed in the northeast area of YiChun due to foggy weather. This incident caused 42 causalities. This news put the Chinese nation in shock. The President of China Xi Jin Ping ordered and demanded a complete investigation of this plane crash. The flight-tracking data (Flight Radar 24) say the plane lost its altitude rapidly. It was descended to the final rate of 31000 ft. a minute and later plummeted to the land. The China Eastern Airline delivered the hotlines to the relatives of 132 passengers on board. More than 6…Original link

By Alistair Baker-Brian The Chinese mainland has been battling a new outbreak of COVID-19 in recent weeks, with a surge in cases of the Omicron variant. It represents the country’s worst outbreak since the Sars-Cov-2 virus first spread across China in early 2020. Make no mistake, China is still implementing its “dynamic zero-COVID” policy which seeks to eliminate the virus rather than “live with it.” That’s why schools in Shanghai have gone online, why tens of thousands of people were locked into an exhibition center in Guangzhou, and why Shenzhen – a city of more than 17 million people – has imposed a citywide lockdown with public transport temporarily closed. While any outbreak of COVID-19 is bad news, there are signs during the latest outbreak that could represent a turning point regarding how China deals with the virus. What's Changing? A few developments which have emerged from the latest outbreak of the Omicron variant suggest that China is still not ready to “live with” the virus, but that it may be preparing to head in that direction. Below are a few things we noticed. 1. Hospital Admissions On March 15, it was announced that confirmed cases with mild symptoms will…Original link

1. Reduce hospital stay Mild cases of Covid-19 will no longer be sent to hospitals in China "light" cases would still be required to isolate at designated facilities where they would be monitored and sent to hospital if needed. Previously, anyone who tested positive was admitted to hospital for observation. 2. Adjust the discharge criteria It is easier for Covid-19 patients to be discharged from hospital or end their isolation period by raising the "cycle threshold", or Ct value, on PCR tests. Ct value indicates how hard it is for the test to detect the virus – the higher it is, the less virus there is in the swab sample and the less infectious the person is. Now, if a PCR test shows a Ct value of 35 or above – the number commonly used outside China – the person is considered to have tested negative and can be released from hospital or isolation. Previously in China, a negative test result was counted as a Ct value above 40. 3. Reduce centralized isolation Under the new NHC rules, cases discharged from hospital or released from isolation can now spend the following seven days at home for health monitoring instead of…Original link

China should make full preparations before relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: Lanzhou-based epidemic prediction team Volunteers guide residents for nucleic acid testing in a residential community in Hohhot on Feb 21, 2022.Photo: IC A securer external environment is a precondition for China to gradually relax COVID-19 epidemic restrictions, but when the global pandemic has yet to be ended in a short term, the country should make full preparations before the gradual relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, a Lanzhou-based epidemic prediction team told the Global Times. Before the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions, in the current key period, China can fortify epidemic defense lines across ports, and build epidemic monitoring mechanisms and improve medical mobilization capability, in addition to the research and development of more effective drugs and vaccines to make full preparations, the epidemic prediction team from the collaborative innovation center of western ecological safety affiliated with Lanzhou University, led by Huang Jianping, told the Global Times on Monday. The country can explore a more comprehensive scheme for the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions when the current epidemic can be controlled and the external environment is safer, Huang’s team noted. 
 According to the Global COVID-19 Prediction System developed by Huang’s team, under current…Original link

Premier Li Keqiang delivered the Government Work Report at the opening of this year's session of the 13th National People's Congress in Beijing on Saturday. Here are some highlights from the draft report.   Main targets for 2022   - China sets its GDP growth target for 2022 at around 5.5 percent - China plans to create more than 11 million new jobs in 2022 - China will maintain its CPI at around 3 percent in 2022 - China plans to cut the ratio of its deficit to GDP to around 2.8 percent for the year of 2022 - China aims to keep its grain output of over 650 million metric tons in 2022 - China's tax refunds and cuts are expected to total around 2.5 trillion yuan (about $395 billion) this year   Fiscal, monetary policy for 2022   - The fundamentals of China's economy remain unchanged, and they will maintain long-term growth - The Chinese government will keep its belt tightened and keep spending low to benefit the people - China's proactive fiscal policy should be more effectual, more targeted, and more sustainable - China will step up implementation of the prudent monetary policy in 2022 - China's…Original link

China's 40-day Chunyun or Spring Festival travel rush, the world's largest human migration, kicked off on Monday with cautious measures amid domestic COVID-19 flare-ups in at least 10 provinces and regions. Flows of passengers on the first day of Chunyun were also quite steady in train stations around other Chinese cities, with no long queues, according to media reports. China Railway Shanghai Group previously predicted that the week ahead of the Spring Festival and the week after the Lantern Festival could see more concentrated passenger flows. Affected by domestic outbreaks, trains to and from affected regions have been suspended or reduced. Many people chose to stay put to celebrate their holidays, and some cities gave extra bonuses to those who opted to stay. Epidemic prevention is still the keyword of this Chunyun. Health codes and masks are essential for taking the public transportation system. Monday was also the first day that people could purchase rail tickets for Lunar New Year's Eve. Scenes of people vying for tickets as in previous years were rare this time and data from Qunar.com, a Chinese online travel agency, showed seats for trains to popular destinations were easily available on Monday. An estimated 24.89 million…

Public health observers are confident that China's "zero tolerance" COVID-19 policy will safeguard the country to withstand epidemic flare-ups, although the outbreak in East China's Fujian Province is still intense and Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reported three fresh cases on Tuesday during the national holidays to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival. Experts said fighting the COVID-19 epidemic will be a long-term task for China, given the severe epidemic situation in the rest of the world, but the public should not overreact. The country has demonstrated its strong capability to overcome epidemic flare-ups and now is devoting efforts to further improve and optimize its "zero tolerance" COVID-19 policy by requiring epidemic regions to act faster and more precisely, and to seek a balance between epidemic prevention and economic development. Shortly after Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province reported three positive COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the city's anti-epidemic group announced measures to cut off any potential virus spread. The National Health Commission dispatched a working group to Harbin to guide the city's response efforts. Harbin authorities have urged residents to not leave the city unless very necessary, closed public venues, suspended large-scale activities and rolled out nucleic acid testing. The source of infection for…Original link

A new international health station will open in Guangzhou to help curb the spread of the COVID-19. Indoor scenes of the rooms in the stations unveiled recently. These rooms are equipped with star-rated hotel’s professional configuration and intelligent service facilities. The station is expected to be officially put into use as soon as late September. “Intelligent station” with no-contact service The process of quarantined personnel arriving at the station from customs and the airport will be unmanned. Medical detection, nursing and room service in the station will also be digitized and intelligent. At the same time, temperature measurement, disinfection, form filling, food delivery, medical waste collection and other artificial links are all achieved through information technology. The rooms of the international health station are basically in a simple design, with an area of 18 square meters, 27 square meters and 36 square meters. There is a QR code scanning area at the door of the room, and people can enter the room by scanning the QR code. Each room is equipped with a health monitoring system, with a screen that shows the specific conditions of people in isolation, including temperature data, nucleic acid test results, physical condition and so on.…Original link

Recently, an American teacher from a Chinese University named Emily Jane O'Dell (Emily) aroused public attention because he violated the epidemic prevention and control regulations of the local government and made racist remarks on overseas social media《 The reporter of Global Times learned from the police of Danba County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan on the 6th that Emily had previously been a teacher of Pittsburgh College of Sichuan University. On August 4, Emily violated the epidemic prevention and control regulations and had a dispute with the staff. That night, she made false and racist remarks on social media. On August 12, Pittsburgh College of Sichuan University decided to dismiss him because of the adverse impact of his words and deeds. According to the relevant provisions of Article 81 of the exit and Entry Administration Law of the people's Republic of China, Emily left Shanghai and returned to the United States on September 2.Original link

Leading Chinese rocket scientist Long Lehao has recently unveiled the country's ambitious manned lunar landing plan, which is expected to be carried out with two rocket launches by sending two taikonauts to the moon by around 2030. Long's comment offers a more detailed picture of the country's major breakthrough in space exploration. Long, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief designer of Long March rockets, made the remarks at the 35th China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest, and a video of his speech went viral on social media late on Sunday night. China is planning to use new variants of the Long March-5 launch vehicle - the strongest member of the Long March rocket family - to carry out the manned space launch missions, according to a slide Long used during his speech. The 57-meter-long Long March-5 launch vehicle weighs 870 tons at launch and has a thrust of 1,000 tons. It is a large, two-stage rocket, capable of carrying a payload of 25 tons, equivalent to the weight of 16 cars, to low Earth orbit. It can carry a payload of 14 tons to geostationary transfer orbit, eight tons to Earth-moon transfer orbit, or five…Original link

The upcoming 13th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, or known as the Airshow China 2021, is set to become another platform to showcase new advancements in China's space technology, as major program contractors are bringing a slew of new projects such as China's first solar probe satellite as well as models of new generation manned launch vehicles to debut at the show. The airshow is to be held in Zhuhai city, South China's Guangdong Province from September 28 to October 3. Global Times learned Tuesday from China's state-owned space giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) that the company will stage star projects including a 3D model of the China space station complex, and the Chang'e-5 lunar probe for the first time to the public at the event. Long Lehao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief designer of Long March rockets, has recently revealed that China is planning to use new variants of the Long March-5 launch vehicle -- the strongest member of the Long March rocket family -- to carry out manned space launch missions around 2030. Long disclosed that the new variant as Long March-5 DY, which is initials for the Chinese…Original link

A 51-YEAR-OLD AIDS patient has recently undergone a successful kidney transplant at the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen. The surgical procedure was the first kidney transplant for an AIDS patient in Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Evening News reported. The male patient, under the alias Tian, has been confirmed with HIV infection for 10 years, during which he had been treated in a hospital in the city of Kunming, Yunnan Province. The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen. SD-Agencies In 2018, Tian had high levels of creatinine, a waste product produced by muscles filtered through the kidneys. He first sought treatment via traditional Chinese medicine and in July 2019, he began hemodialysis. Tian wanted a kidney transplant. He came to the kidney transplantation department of the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen this year. According to Yuan Xiaopeng, director of the hospital’s kidney transplantation department, it is unclear which type of kidney disease Tian had due to the absence of a pathological puncture, but it was likely to be a special type of kidney disease caused by HIV infection. In August this year, Tian found his kidney transplant match. Yuan said that Tian suffered from mild liver cirrhosis and poor coagulation function. Tian’s surgery was just as difficult as ordinary…Original link

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