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Spring Festival Travel Season Begins

A girl waits outside a railway station in Jinan, Shandong province, Jan. 16, 2022. Monday is the first day of the 2022 Spring Festival travel season. IC

Beijing Finds City’s First Local Omicron Infection

The highly transmissible variant has been detected in at least seven Chinese cities.

Across China, Fading Newsstands Signal the End of an Era

The pandemic has only hastened the decline of China’s newsstands. Today, just a few dozen are left.

Chinese Photographer Brings Hollywood Effects to Travel Vlogging

A travel video about Shanghai made by a freelance photographer from Guangdong province has gone viral on Chinese video platforms for using the kind of special effects normally seen in a Hollywood movie.

Beijing Olympics Boosts Winter Tourism

On China’s Use of Traffic Laws to Promote Electric Cars

Down and Out in China’s Rust Belt

I had been driven to buy a Tesla by a maze of new traffic rules implemented by my city of residence, Shanghai.