Officials of Huangpu district government in Shanghai had dinner at a high-end restaurant before joining in a New Year's Eve laser display at a site near the deadly stampede in the district's Bund area, according to a report on Monday by Caixin New Century Weekly.
Authorities in Shanghai are taking additional steps at activities or events that involve large numbers of people to prevent another tragedy like the deadly stampede on New Year's Eve that killed 36 people.
Thirty-two out of 49 injured people in the New Year's Eve stampede in east China's Shanghai have been discharged from the hospital, local authorities said.
Expired meat products totaling 521.2 metric tons from the Shanghai Husi Food Co, which was involved in a food safety scandal last summer, have been destroyed.
Just more than a year after the successful launch of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ), the government is planning several similar zones to invigorate the faltering economy.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung said Tuesday the Shanghai--Hong Kong Stock Connect is an important measure to expand Hong Kong's financial market as the city will be gateway for bringing overseas capital into the Chinese mainland.
The landmark Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect, which is aimed at linking up the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shanghai, was officially launched on Monday.
A much-anticipated pilot project to connect stock trading in Shanghai and Hong Kong aims to open up A-shares and usher in further reform in China's capital market.
A tour bus carrying 49 people overturned in Shanghai Monday morning, killing six and injuring 43 others, local authorities said.
A Chinese painting and photo exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Bulgaria opened here on Wednesday.
Microsoft launched its Xbox One gaming console in China on Monday, ending a 14-year ban during the one-year anniversary of the founding of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
A year after the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ) was established, reforms piloted in the zone have now been applied elsewhere in the country.
In many investors' eyes, the Chinese stock market is a mere gambling den where companies make fortunes overnight just by being listed; a situation that can't last indefinitely.
One of New Zealand's most enduring sister city relationships with China is set to boost bilateral trade links with major business support, says a New Zealand official.
Fast food chains have stopped using products supplied by a Shanghai meat processing plant over allegations that it was supplying stale meat and mislabeling expiration dates.
McDonald's restaurants in China are suffering a shortage of supplies after it decided to reject products from OSI China and any of its joint ventures, the fast food chain's China unit told Xinhua on Monday.
Shanghai's top official on Sunday pledged "severe punishment" for anyone involved in a food safety scandal that has spread from the Chinese financial hub to Hong Kong and Japan.
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