China in Pictures Page 13

Mar 09, 2020 17:10 PM

Gallery: Cherry Trees Blossom in Wuhan
Every year, travelers flock to Wuhan in March to April to visit a spot famous for its cherry blossoms, the aptly named East Lake Cherry Blossom Park. That’s a not happening this year because the coronavirus has left much of the city, the epicenter of the outbreak, on lockdown
Mar 08, 2020 20:05 PM

Gallery: Quarantine Hotel in South China Collapses
A hotel in Quanzhou, a city in the southern province of Fujian, collapsed on Saturday evening, with 71 people trapped in the debris, according to local authorities. The hotel was being used as an isolation facility for people who need to be quarantined. As of Sunday 4 p.m., 37 people who were trapped in the debris were being treated in hospital, and 11 people have been confirmed dead. A Caixin photographer captured the scene as the rescue team continues to search for the other 23 trapped
Mar 06, 2020 16:05 PM

Gallery: Still Serving
To keep their businesses running during the coronavirus outbreak, some restaurants in Beijing have come up with a novel way to serve customers — outdoor food stands. Dishes are prepared outside and handed over for takeout
Mar 03, 2020 18:42 PM

Gallery: Beijing’s Empty Streets
China’s capital might be officially back to work, but it would be hard to tell from walking around the normally congested city. Tourist sites and other popular destinations remain unusually free of sightseers, customers or pedestrians
Feb 29, 2020 19:32 PM

Gallery: Life in a Makeshift Wuhan ‘Shelter Hospital’
Rest and time are the only cure for Covid-19. In Wuhan, people with mild forms of the disease are quarantined in converted cultural and entertainment centers until they recover, relieving pressure on emergency rooms and intensive care where more severe cases are handled. Caixin photographers captured daily life inside one such facility, the 1,461-bed Fangcang hospital
Feb 28, 2020 19:01 PM

Gallery: Keeping a Healthy Distance
In China, people are still going out during the coronavirus outbreak, but some are taking steps to keep a little distance between themselves and everybody else. In some cities in Central China, stores have even taken to marking the ground to remind queueing shoppers to stay away from each other
Feb 27, 2020 19:20 PM

Gallery: Ticket to Work
A special one-off train carrying nearly 600 migrant workers to China’s manufacturing capital of Guangdong province set off Wednesday from the southwestern city of Chengdu. All work for companies in the Guangdong city of Foshan. The government-sponsored train was commissioned to help workers get back on the job sooner rather than later amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Feb 25, 2020 16:59 PM

Gallery: Delivering the Goods
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a lot more people in China are buying everyday necessities online and having the items delivered. As of Saturday, nearly 70% of China’s major express delivery companies had resumed operation. Of those companies, the delivery services of China Post, JD.com and SF Express were running at full capacity, according to the central government
Feb 20, 2020 19:13 PM

Gallery: Getting Off the Ship
About 500 passengers of the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise liner were allowed to disembark Wednesday after spending 14 days in quarantine. They had all tested negative for the virus. The cruise ship, which is still docked in Yokohama, Japan, is expected to clear all 3,711 passengers and crew by Friday, according to the local government
Feb 18, 2020 17:50 PM

Gallery: Beijing SARS Hospital Gets Upgrade for New Coronavirus
Beijing’s Xiaotangshan Hospital, built in 2003 to treat SARS patients, has been undergoing renovations 17 years later, this time for possible receipt of patients from the new Covid-19 outbreak. Nearly 5,000 workers labored on Jan. 23, the first day of the overhaul. After the renovation, the hospital will have capacity for more than 1,000 beds that can be used as backup if the outbreak in Beijing worsens, according to the Beijing Municipal Health Committee
Feb 11, 2020 16:55 PM

Gallery: Medical Reinforcements Arrive in Wuhan
More than 2,000 medical personnel have joined the fight against the new coronavirus on the front lines in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province. The medical team planned to take over a wing of Tongji Hospital, which as of Sunday had increased its number of beds to 850 to treat infected patients in critical condition
Feb 08, 2020 19:38 PM

Gallery: China Mourns Death of ‘Heroic’ Whistleblower Doctor
Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old doctor reprimanded by police for raising the alarm over the deadly coronavirus outbreak, died Friday of the disease
Feb 06, 2020 18:02 PM

Gallery: A Night in a Wuhan Emergency Room
Wuhan’s hospitals are overwhelmed. According to the Wuhan Health Commission, almost every hospital bed was occupied on Tuesday. Doctors at the epicenter of the outbreak are in a race against time to treat patients infected by the deadly coronavirus. As of Thursday morning, 564 people in China had died from the virus, with 414 in Wuhan
Feb 05, 2020 16:46 PM

Gallery: Wuhan’s Makeshift Medical Facilities
Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is scrambling to set up makeshift hospitals to increase the number of quarantine beds available for infected patients. So far, a stadium, a local exhibition center and a cultural complex have been converted into temporary medical facilities capable of holding 3,400 beds in total. They will be used for emergency aid, treatment and clinical testing, the local government agency in charge of controlling the epidemic said late Monday
Jan 28, 2020 13:44 PM

Gallery: Doctors Mobilize in Wuhan to Fight Virus
An outbreak of a previously unknown coronavirus has killed at least 81 people and infected more than 2,800 as of Monday. Authorities have scrambled to address criticisms about a shortage of medical supplies in the now-quarantined city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. They are now building a makeshift hospital called Huoshenshan, which they say will be able to treat 1,000 people when it comes into use on Feb. 3
Jan 23, 2020 17:01 PM

Gallery: Emergency Coronavirus Meeting at the WHO
Health experts met Wednesday at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva for an emergency meeting to address the outbreak of a previously unknown coronavirus that has killed 17 Chinese people. Because the virus has spread outside of China, the WHO convened the meeting to determine whether to declare a global health emergency
Jan 22, 2020 16:35 PM

Gallery: China Milestones at Davos
The World Economic Forum marked nearly 50 years of history at its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Outside the event, a timeline listed many of the world’s most important economic developments over the last five decades, including former U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China
Jan 21, 2020 16:16 PM

Gallery: The Day Before Davos
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting opened Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland. The event, often just called Davos, is expected to draw nearly 3,000 participants from 117 countries. It runs through Friday
Jan 16, 2020 16:06 PM

Gallery: Signing Ceremony
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the phase one trade deal at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. Trump touted the agreement as a ‘momentous step’ after a one-and-a-half-year trade war between the world’s two largest economies
Jan 15, 2020 17:02 PM

Gallery: Nine Dead After Sinkhole Swallows Bus in Northwest China
Nine people have been confirmed dead and 17 others injured after a road collapsed in Xining, capital of Northwest China’s Qinghai province, Chinese authorities said late Tuesday. The collapse occurred Monday afternoon when a section of road caved in, causing a bus to plunge into the hole. Officials have yet to explain the cause of the collapse