China recently issued conflicting sets of data for the number of cell phone and landline users in the country. But the data all reflect a net loss of millions of cell phone users, leading some to speculate whether the decline was due to the economic downturn, pandemic-related deaths, or something else all together. Today, nearly…
Report: Less Than 30% of Chinese Netizens Earn More Than $774 a Month
A recent internet study shows that as of December 2020, less than 30 percent of Chinese internet users earn more than 5,000 yuan (about $774) a month in China. The figure was released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a state-run agency, in its 47th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China dated…
Communist Party Tightens Control on Chinese Social Media, License Now Required to Comment on Current Affairs
February 5, 2021
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China’s ruling communist party has further tightened its control over speech, information, and thought among the Chinese people, announcing limits on what is allowed on Chinese social media. The country’s social media platforms in recent days have issued notices to users, requiring them to obtain “Internet News Information Service Licenses” or otherwise be banned from…
Frontline Nurse: Problems Abound in China’s Pandemic Prevention Efforts
Mismanagement, faulty equipment, and unfair allocation of government compensation were common problems in China’s attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19, a nurse recently told The Epoch Times in an interview. Liu Fen (alias), is a nurse at a healthcare center in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province. She shared some of the problems she witnessed while…
China Postpones Release of 2020 Population Data, Facing Possible Population Collapse: Experts
February 4, 2021
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The National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China stated at a press conference on Jan. 18 that it would be postponing the release of China’s birth data for 2020. But according to data released by some local governments, the mainland’s population appears to be declining, and at an alarming rate in some areas…
Chinese Resident Under Virus Lockdown Stabs a Pandemic Control Volunteer to Death
A pandemic control volunteer in northeastern China was stabbed to death on Feb. 3 while attempting to block a resident from leaving his apartment complex. The volunteer, surnamed Zhang, worked as a guard at a residential community in Hulan district, Harbin city. He was stabbed multiple times after he refused to let a resident surnamed…
Virus Lockdown in China Impacts Pig Farm Owners’ Livelihoods
February 3, 2021
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The latest CCP virus outbreak in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang Province is ever-worsening. Villagers in Wangkui county, one of the epicenters of the recent resurgence of COVID-19, were forcibly taken to quarantine centers, with their livestock and crops left behind. The remaining pig farm owners in this county have suffered difficulties due to the authorities’ imposed…
Wuhan Citizens Doubt WHO Virus Origin Probe Will Lead to Answers
As a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) is in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, city residents expressed concerns that the team would not be able to conduct a full probe given local authorities’ earlier coverup. They also lamented that the team visited a museum…
Tens of Thousands of Chinese Expats Stranded in Burma Following Military Coup
February 3, 2021
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Burma’s military launched a coup in the early morning of Feb. 1, and said it would impose a state of emergency for one year. At present, there are tens of thousands of mainland Chinese business entrepreneurs and workers in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Previously, the Chinese regime said that due to the current COVID-19…
Beijing City Is Underreporting the Number of CCP Virus Cases: Chinese Official
Chinese authorities on Feb. 2 only announced new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus infections in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. But an official in Beijing told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that the CCP virus outbreak in the capital was out of control and that authorities were covering up new COVID-19 diagnoses there. In Harbin, capital of…
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