#Huawei now filing patent for its facial recognition system specifically for #Uyghurs. With this system, they won't be able to escape from #CCP anywhere they go.
#FightForFreedom
#StandWithUyghur
#CCP_is_Terrorist
#BoycottHuawei

China's new home prices saw moderate growth in Dec

The mainland's new homes prices grew moderately in December, official data showed on Friday, as government measures aimed at cooling the property market took their toll.Average new home prices in 70 major cities rose 0.1 percent month-on-month in December, according to calculations of data from the National Bureau of Statistics. The pace of growth was unchanged from November.New home prices rose 3.8 percent in December versus a year earlier, slowing slightly from a 4 percent increase in November.China's property market has recovered quickly from the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to local governments' relaxation on price ceilings and urban-residency permits, while access to mortgages has also become easier.But the sharp rebound has raised concerns about financial risk, with the government stepping up efforts to deleverage a highly indebted sector since the second half of last year.The NBS data also showed the number of cities reporting monthly price increases for new homes rose to 42 out of 70 from 36 in November. Tier-1 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen reported the biggest monthly gains. (Reuters)

2021-01-15 11:08:09

🔻 JUST IN - China blasts the UK at UN over criticism of Uighur treatment (AFP).
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Of course we have #memes to go with that heavy piece of info

In short: digital yuan is just more ways for ccp to control its people.

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Migrant workers urged to avoid CNY trips home

Fearing Covid cases, lost profits and possible lockdowns, local governments and humming factories on the mainland are offering a slew of incentives to persuade workers not to go home for the Chinese New Year holiday in February.This period usually sees the majority of the country's 280 million rural migrant workers, as well as millions of white-collar workers who live far from home, travel back to see family.The rapid coronavirus spread during last year's holidays, however, trapped many workers in their villages for months and forced them into long quarantines when they finally returned to the cities.Factories were paralysed, industrial production plummeted, and workers lost weeks of income.Companies usually pay more to those who work over the festival, but this year local governments and companies are hoping far more take up the offer.Most provinces have issued notices encouraging workers to stay in place, citing the importance of epidemic control as well as "guaranteeing the stability of industrial and supply chains."Incentives include extra pay, prizes, entertainment, free New Year's eve banquets and staggered holiday arrangements.Demand for labour in some industries is already high. China's manufacturing recovery, fuelled in part by demand from Covid-constrained consumers abroad, has soared past expectations this year, with factories struggling to fill a shortage of blue-collar workers.A notice from the government of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, said a halt to production over Lunar New Year amid blistering foreign demand could "cause companies huge losses."While it's yet to be seen how many workers stay put this year, the mainland's state planner said it expects "markedly lower" holiday travel than normal. Jiangxi province, a major source of migrant workers, expects travel to be around 60 percent of 2019.One chemicals company in Zhejiang told local media 85 percent of its workers plan to stay this year, lured by double hourly pay and an extra 500 yuan (US$77) reward for full-time attendance over the festival period.Increased mass travel at this time also heighten the risk of new coronavirus infections, which had otherwise been largely snuffed out across most of the country.China reported its biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than 10 months on Thursday as infections in Heilongjiang province nearly tripled. Twenty-eight million people have been put under home quarantine in northern provinces.Wang Zhishen, who works at a container factory in Dongguan, said he will probably stay there if his factory remains open, despite having already purchased a train ticket home to Gansu province, 2,000 kilometres away."What if you get unlucky and get infected on the road back home? Then your whole family might get sick," he said."If my factory is not going to be closed over the holiday, I think I'll just stay in Dongguan. Going home is too risky."For some, especially those who don't have employers who can offer prizes and guarantee work over the holidays, reuniting with families is still worth the risk.At Beijing Railway Station this week, a 64-year-old migrant worker surnamed Wang, who works as a construction worker in the capital, was rushing back to his village in eastern Shandong province before it enters lockdown. "There's no other way. We have to get back before then. We've got family back home." he said, after arriving at the station seven hours before his train leaves Beijing. (Reuters)

2021-01-15 11:41:15

#WuhanPneumonia #MadeinChina
China-Made #CoronaVac Only Scores 50% in General Efficacy Test

The Butantan Institute in Brazil announced that the China-made CoronaVac vaccine has a 50 percent general efficacy rate in late-stage trials. 

Reuters described the results as disappointing. The rate means that CoronaVac is only 50 percent effective when preventing patients from contracting mild cases of coronavirus.

Although the minimum target set by the World Health Organisation is 50 percent, the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine is way behind the vaccines produced by Moderna at 94 percent and Pfizer/BioNTech at 95 percent.

Source: Apple Daily; RTHK #Jan13

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1570113-20210113.htm

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20210113/NEWV4SZV4NDVDO67XEBGGWPBUA/

Stalking, Surveillance, Blocking, Capturing - Experience of Chinese Human Rights Activists (and The New Norm in Hong Kong)

"I haven't had any visitors at my house for years, because they're downstairs, not allowing any diplomat, media worker, journalist, or so-called 'unstable individuals', to come to my house." Hu Jia said in a video interview with Stand News from her home in Beijing, while wearing a black blouse with the words "I want true universal suffrage".

Read our full translated article:
https://telegra.ph/Stalking-Surveillance-Blocking-Capturing---Experience-of-Chinese-Human-Rights-Activists-and-The-New-Norm-in-Hong-Kong-01-11

Source：Stand News #Oct21

#Stalking #Surveillance #Blocking #Capturing #ChineseHumanRights