Category : China Watch

Gearing Up For Military Recruitment Military recruitment for the first half of 2022 will start on Feb. 15 and end on March 31, according to the Central Military Commission. Recruitment for the second half of the year will run from August. 15 to September 30. Starting last year, China’s military extended conscription from once a […]Read More

Breaking Taboos    Imagine, the country’s most talked-about new gallery isn’t based in Beijing’s trendy 798 Art District or in the laid-back southwestern city of Chengdu. It’s inside a Shanghai mental hospital. The No. 600 Gallery — a small space in the Shanghai Mental Health Center’s (SMHC) downtown facility — which opened its doors to […]Read More

Covid Outbreak In Industrial Cities Authorities in east China’s Zhejiang province are making all-out efforts to contain the latest COVID-19 outbreak while mitigating its impact on manufacturing and business activities. The Chinese mainland reported 50 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, of which 45 were in Zhejiang Province, said the National Health Commission. The province has […]Read More

Push For Mandarin Could Hit Minority Languages The government has launched an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin. A circular by the Ministry of Education said the number of people who speak Putonghua, or Mandarin Chinese, will increase to 85 percent of the population by 2025. It stressed the importance of promoting Chinese language education and […]Read More

Highest Grossing Movie Is Great Propaganda The Chinese war epic The Battle At Lake Changjin is probably the highest grossing film in China’s history. As of November 25, the film had taken in $933.7 million, surpassing another action film Wolf Warrior 2. The film, which debuted a day before the week-long Chinese National Day holiday, […]Read More

Patients Or Criminals? Hundreds of people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have become unexpected targets in China’s war on drugs. The country’s health system has made it extremely challenging for adults with the disorder to access vital medication. Many have turned to the black market as a result but that’s now putting them in […]Read More

Government Wants More Vigilante Groups Vigilantes are looked on unfavourably but not in China where vigilantism connotes social activism and the authorities want more. The Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau released a plan earlier this month to increase the number of community social organizations in the capital that will function like the highly influential Chaoyang […]Read More

Covid Worries For Oil Firm China National Petroleum Corp, the world’s third-largest oil firm, has told all of its Beijing units to enter a “state of emergency” after four of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. The state-owned giant said it immediately started to conduct nucleic acid testing for all employees. The move came after […]Read More

Govt Notice Sees Rush At Supermarkets A recent notice from the Ministry of Commerce, calling on citizens to stock up on daily necessities has seen people rushing to supermarkets and grocery stores to stock up on rice, noodles, cooking oil, and other essentials, according to posts on social media platforms. One resident said he bought […]Read More