World

  • China, Indonesian leaders exchange congratulations on 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties
  • Britain’s GDP may fall up to 30%: Report
  • Canadian firm approved to produce rapid COVID-19 testing device: media (A Canadian bioscience company has got the Canadian federal government’s approval for production of a device it claims can show COVID-19 test results in less than an hour, according to CTV Sunday.)

China

  • Shanghai’s government services get smart upgrade(An urban operation and management center was set u within the municipal government of Shanghai in late March to make the government’s services smarter by connecting data from different administrative bodies)
  • China enhances lab testing capability for COVID-19
  • Phase II clinical trial for vaccine underway
  • Tax reduction policies set in Hubei for medics, donors
  • Expert: New outbreak unlikely, but caution needed
  • Shanghai releases plan to empower traditional industries(The Shanghai municipal government on Monday released a 23-point action plan to develop the city’s”online new economy”, which employs technologies like artficial intelligence,5G networks and big data to transform and empower traditional industries)
  • Mainland reports nearly 100 new imported infections
  • Makeshift hospital in Heilongjiang province completed
  • Northeast China city delays school opening amid rising imported virus cases
  • Hainan launches work on 100 projects with 49b yuan investment(A total of 100 Hainan Free Trade Port projects with 48.9 billion yuan($6.94 billion) investment got underway on Monday, Hainan Daily reported.
  • Customs to set up a strict inspection of medical supplies for export(Customs authorities are stepping up efforts to strictly inspect exported medical supplies to use against COVID-19, maintaining good order for exportation, a senior official said at a new conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council on Monday)
  • Car production and sales increase in March