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Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy

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Protests erupted across China on Saturday, including at universities and in Shanghai where hundreds chanted “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!” in an unprecedented show of defiance against the country’s stringent and increasingly costly zero-Covid policy.

A deadly fire at an apartment block in Urumqi, the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang, which killed 10 people and injured nine on Thursday has acted as a catalyst for searing public anger, as videos emerged that seemed to suggest lockdown measures delayed firefighters from reaching the victims.

Protests broke out in cities and at universities across China on Saturday with some stretching into Sunday, according to social media videos and witness accounts.

On dozens of university campuses, students held gatherings or put up posters to grieve the dead from the Xinjiang fire and speak out against zero-Covid. In several cities, residents in locked-down neighborhoods tore down barriers and took to the streets, following mass anti-lockdown protests that swept Urumqi on Friday night.
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Jiang Zemin, former leader who paved the way for China’s rise, dies at 96

By Steven Jiang, CNN
Updated 10:20 PM EST, Wed November 30, 2022

Jiang Zemin, the Chinese communist leader who paved the way for the country’s emergence as a global superpower, has died, state-run Xinhua news agency announced Wednesday. He was 96.

The former chief of the ruling Communist Party and state president died of leukemia and associated multiple organ failure on Wednesday in Shanghai. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two grandchildren.

Jiang’s death comes at a particularly sensitive time in China. An unprecedented wave of protests against the country’s unrelenting “zero-Covid” policy erupted across China in recent days, with some demonstrators in Shanghai calling on current leader Xi Jinping to step down. China has a history of people taking to the streets to mourn the deaths of previous leaders, while airing their grievances against incumbent governments.

The announcement of Jiang’s passing was met with an outpouring of reminiscence on China’s tightly controlled social media, with many mourning the former leader – and a bygone era when China was perceived to be freer and more open to the world.

The party’s official obituary hailed Jiang as “an outstanding leader” who enjoyed “high prestige” and “a communist fighter that withstood many trials and tests.”

“During the serious political turmoil in China in the spring and summer of 1989, Comrade Jiang Zemin supported and implemented the correct decision of the Party Central Committee to oppose unrest, defend the socialist state power, safeguard the fundamental interests of the people … and effectively maintain the stability of Shanghai,” it read.

While meeting the visiting Laotian president on Wednesday, Xi said the country “deeply mourns” Jiang’s death and “will turn grief into strength” in building a modern socialist China, according to a Chinese foreign ministry readout.

Jiang is often credited for successfully integrating China into the international community after the nation was shunned by the West following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

With him as its top leader, China regained sovereignty over Hong Kong, won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and, perhaps most importantly, joined the World Trade Organization.



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Volkonski wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 3:27 am
Lani wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 2:03 am I haven't followed China's new crackdown. Is it a new variation of covid?
Yes. Also China has not managed to immunize as many of its residents as it had hoped to by now.
Also, China's vaccine isn't as effective as they had hoped.

(And by the way, China is not the only place experiencing a surge right now. Australia's hospitals are starting to fill up too.)
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:? So, when will they offer us the next booster shot?
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Volkonski wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:55 am :? So, when will they offer us the next booster shot?
I'm guessing next spring to fall. Just got my bivalent on Friday.
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Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day – local health chief
The figures reported by Qingdao’s municipal health chief were in stark contrast to official statistics from the central government

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Sat 24 Dec 2022 05.08 GMT

Half a million people a day are being infected with Covid-19 in a single Chinese city, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgment that the country’s wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics.

A news outlet operated by the ruling Communist party in Qingdao reported the municipal health chief as saying that the eastern city was seeing “between 490,000 and 530,000” new Covid cases a day.

The coastal city of about 10 million people was “in a period of rapid transmission ahead of an approaching peak”, Bo Tao reportedly said on Friday, adding that the infection rate would accelerate by another 10% over the weekend.

The report was shared by several other news outlets but appeared to have been edited by Saturday morning to remove the case figures.

China’s National Health Commission said that just 4,103 new infections were recorded across the entire country on Friday, with no new deaths. In Shandong, the province where Qingdao is located, authorities officially logged just 31 new domestic cases.




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Meanwhile in the US, some states won't provide covid information. And some people have a positive covid home test, do not report, and continue to work as best they can.
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China threatens US entities over downing of balloon

Wed, February 15, 2023 at 12:42 PM GMT+1

BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.

At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.

China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.

Since the Feb. 4 downing of the balloon, the United States has sanctioned six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs.

The U.S. House of Representatives subsequently voted unanimously to condemn China for a “brazen violation” of U.S. sovereignty and efforts to “deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken also canceled a visit to Beijing that many hoped would stabilize ties that have cratered amid disputes over trade, human rights, Taiwan and China's claim to the South China Sea.

While China denies the balloon was a military asset, it has yet to say what government department or company was responsible.

After initially expressing regret over the balloon's entry into U.S. airspace, China has returned spying accusations against Washington, alongside its threats of retaliation.

“China firmly opposes this and will take countermeasures in accordance with the law against the relevant U.S. entities that undermine China’s sovereignty and security,” Wang said at Wednesday's briefing.

China will “resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and its legitimate rights and interests," Wang said.

Also Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said the Chinese balloon's intrusion was part of a pattern of aggressive behavior by Beijing.

Emanuel noted China’s recent beaming of military-grade laser on a Philippine coast guard patrol vessel, the harassment of U.S. planes by Chinese jets and China's opening of illegal police stations in the U.S., Ireland and other countries.

“The balloon to me is not an isolated incident,” Emanuel said.



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Chinese billionaire tech banker Bao Fan goes missing
Disappearance of China Renaissance chair raises fears of fresh crackdown on China’s finance industry

Amy Hawkins and agencies
Fri 17 Feb 2023 15.14 GMT

A billionaire Chinese dealmaker has gone missing, plunging one of the country’s top investment banks into turmoil.

Bao Fan, the founder and executive director of China Renaissance, is a major figure in the Chinese tech industry and has played an important role in the emergence of a string of large domestic internet startups.

Shares in China Renaissance slumped after the bank announced to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday that it had been unable to contact Bao, without giving further details.

The stock plunged 50% at one point after the statement, before clawing back to about 30% down.

According to the financial news outlet Caixin, the 52-year-old had been unreachable for two days as of Thursday evening.

The executive committee of China Renaissance told employees not to worry in a message on Friday morning. “[We] believe that everyone has had a restless night. At this time, [we] hope that you do not believe in or spread rumours,” the message said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bao’s disappearance is raising concerns over a possible renewed crackdown on China’s finance industry as President Xi Jinping persists in his longstanding campaign against corruption.

The Chinese government has cracked down on several big industries, including technology, education and real estate, as part of Xi’s “common prosperity” drive to “keep income distribution and the means of accumulating wealth well-regulated”.

At least six billionaires have been cowed under Xi, including Jack Ma, the founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba, who disappeared for three months in 2020 after criticising market regulators.




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Missing Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan assisting authorities in investigation, company says
Tech dealmaker reported to be unreachable 10 days ago in latest case of a top executive going missing during Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive

Reuters in Beijing
Mon 27 Feb 2023 00.25 GMT

The Chinese billionaire tech banker Bao Fan, who was reported missing 10 days ago, is cooperating with Chinese authorities conducting an investigation, a China-based boutique bank has said.

It is the first time China Renaissance Holdings has given a reason for the disappearance of its founder and chairman, though no details about the investigation were shared.

“The board would like to reiterate that the business and operations of the group are continuing normally,” the bank said in the exchange filing on Sunday.

Reuters previously reported, citing sources, that authorities took Bao away earlier this month to assist in an investigation into a former colleague, Cong Lin, the company’s former president.

Shares of the company slumped last week after it said in an exchange filing the company had been unable to contact Bao.

Bao is a major figure in China’s tech industry and has played a key role in the emergence of a string of large domestic internet startups.

The star dealmaker’s disappearance is the latest in a series of cases of high-profile Chinese executives going missing with little explanation during a sweeping anti-corruption campaign spearheaded by President Xi Jinping.

In 2015 alone, at least five executives became unreachable without prior notice to their companies, including Fosun Group chairman Guo Guangchang, who Fosun later said was assisting with investigations regarding a personal matter.

Bao’s disappearance also comes against the backdrop of more than two years of sweeping regulatory crackdown on technology companies.




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is cooperating with Chinese authorities conducting an investigation,
In the US of A that would be called a Plea Deal ...
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China's abrupt reopening sparks student accommodation crisis in Australia

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For Zoey Zhang, a student from China who is heading to a top Australian university, finding accommodation Down Under has been tough - so much so that she has even considered sleeping "rough on the streets".

Like Zhang, around 700,000 students from China enrolled to study overseas have been left in the lurch after a surprise January edict by Beijing said they would have to return to on-campus learning for their education to be recognised back home.

This has triggered a rush for accommodation even as housing markets worldwide grapple with surging rents. But the crisis is more acute in Australia because its academic year starts in February, not September as in North America and Europe.

Zhang said she "went into panic mode" as the rule change, after three years of COVID-19 border closures, meant she and about 40,000 other Chinese students also heading to Australia would all be looking for a place to stay.

"I knew that finding a rental in Australia won't be easy, but I didn't expect it to be this difficult. Some are subletting their living rooms or balconies. I don't think I can do that," Zhang, 25, said via telephone from her home in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong.

"I have been looking for a room for about a month now and I have given up," added Zhang, who has enrolled for a masters degree in marketing at the University of New South Wales. "If I get desperate, I could even sleep rough on the streets, like under some bridge, or outside the Chinese consulate."

The University of New South Wales, which welcomed a quarter of its students from China until 2020, said its on-campus accommodation was full and it was refurbishing university apartments to rent to foreign students.

A spokesperson for Sydney University, also with a fourth of its students coming from China, said its 2,400 dormitory beds near campus were taken and that it had booked another 700 with third-party providers and negotiated discounts with hotels to accommodate the influx.
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China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, thinktank finds

Year-long study finds China leads in 37 of 44 areas it tracked, with potential for a monopoly in areas such as nanoscale materials and synthetic biology

The United States and other western countries are losing the race with China to develop advanced technologies and retain talent, with Beijing potentially establishing a monopoly in some areas, a new report has said.

China leads in 37 of 44 technologies tracked in a year-long project by thinktank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The fields include electric batteries, hypersonics and advanced radio-frequency communications such as 5G and 6G.

The report, published on Thursday, said the US was the leader in just the remaining seven technologies such as vaccines, quantum computing and space launch systems.

It said the findings were based on “high impact” research in critical and emerging technology fields, focusing on papers that were published in top-tier journals and were highly cited by subsequent research,
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Xi Jinping handed unprecedented third term as China’s president
Coronation sets up Xi, who has overseen consolidation of power, to become modern China’s longest-serving head of state

Rhoda Kwan, Amy Hawkins and agencies
Fri 10 Mar 2023 09.05 GMT

Xi Jinping has been handed an unprecedented third term as president, capping an ascent in which he has become China’s most powerful leader in generations.

In a carefully choreographed ceremony in Beijing, Xi held up his right fist and placed his left hand on a red leather copy of China’s constitution. In the oath – beamed live on state television across China – he vowed to “build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilised, harmonious and great modern socialist country”.

The appointment by China’s rubber-stamp parliament comes after he was handed in October another five years as head of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and the military – the two more significant leadership positions in Chinese politics. Friday’s appointment as the head of state is a ceremonial addition to Xi’s iron grip on power.

The 69-year-old has faced challenges including mass protests over his zero-Covid policy and its subsequent abandonment in which countless people died.

Those issues have been avoided at this week’s National People’s Congress (NPC), a closely watched event in which, over the next two days, Xi’s ally Li Qiang will also be appointed as premier, putting him in charge of managing the world’s second largest economy.




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Heads exploding at a senior citizens residence in FL :violin:
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RTH10260 wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:29 am Heads exploding at a senior citizens residence in FL :violin:
I mean, clearly, the secret to Xi's success was that beautiful piece of chocolate cake, amirite?
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Ben-Prime wrote: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:21 pm
RTH10260 wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:29 am Heads exploding at a senior citizens residence in FL :violin:
I mean, clearly, the secret to Xi's success was that beautiful piece of chocolate cake, amirite?
That.......and a 100 million man army that's willing to do your bidding... :shrug:
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How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state
Experts say Xu Zhiyong’s fate symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement

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Mon 17 Apr 2023 00.23 BST

Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive.

The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier this month, along with fellow activist and lawyer Ding Jiaxi, who was jailed for 12 years. Both were convicted of the crime of “subversion of state power.”

The Communist party-controlled court has accused Xu of intending to overthrow the current regime by promoting his vision of “a beautiful China.” According to a court indictment, with a series of articles, blogs, websites and secret meetings, Xu, Ding and other activists were “seriously endangering national security and social stability.”

But the government once felt very differently about Xu, and experts say Xu’s dramatic life symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement.

Twenty years ago, Xu was a golden boy feted by the Chinese government and the state media. Along with fellow PhD law graduates Teng Biao and Yu Jiang, he successfully lobbied the national legislature to abolish rules on detaining and repatriating migrants after a young man was beaten to death in custody. The trio were hailed by the Ministry of Justice and state broadcaster CCTV as “the top ten legal figures of 2003.”

The “Sun Zhigang incident” in 2003, named after the young man who died, marked the beginning of China’s rights defence movement.

In the following years, Xu and Teng made it their mission to seek justice for the underprivileged. They and other lawyers set up the Open Constitution Institute, a non-profit legal aid centre, to provide free legal advice for people with grievances. Xu also campaigned for children of migrant workers’ education rights, investigated extralegal “black jails” which locked up petitioners and wrote research reports on social issues. He was showered with awards by the state media, and was named one of “Ten most outstanding young leaders” by a state-run magazine in 2006.



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China rows back after envoy denies sovereignty of former Soviet states
Beijing says it respects status of countries such as Ukraine after ambassador’s comments spark row

Jon Henley, and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Mon 24 Apr 2023 14.04 BST

Beijing has insisted it respects the status of the independent nations that emerged from the USSR after “totally unacceptable” remarks by China’s ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of former Soviet states sparked outrage in EU capitals.

France and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were among the member states on Monday to summon China’s envoys to account for the comments made late last week by Lu Shaye, which sparked a wave of outrage across Europe.

Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said the diplomats would be asked to explain if “China’s position has changed … and reminded we’re not post-Soviet countries but countries that were illegally occupied by the Soviet Union”.

Landsbergis tweeted: “If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic states don’t trust China to ‘broker peace in Ukraine’, here’s a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries’ borders have no legal basis.”

China downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania – and pressured multinationals to sever links with it – in December 2021 after the Baltic nation, which has long favoured a hard EU line on Beijing, allowed Taiwan to open a de facto embassy in Vilnius.

Estonia’s foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna, said he was seeking to find out “why China has such a position or comments about the Baltic states”. Tsahkna added: “I hope that there will be an explanation. We are not satisfied.”

The French foreign ministry said Lu would be given “a stern rebuke”, Germany said Beijing must clarify its stance, and the Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, described the remarks as “totally unacceptable”. The Italian foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said he also disagreed with Lu’s comments.

Asked about his position on whether Crimea was part of Ukraine or not, Lu said in a French TV interview on Friday that historically it was part of Russia and had been offered to Ukraine by the former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

The independent sovereign nations that emerged after the fall of the former Soviet Union “don’t have effective status under international law because there is not an international agreement confirming their status as sovereign nations”, he said.

Beijing on Monday sought to defuse the row. The Chinese embassy in Paris issued a formal statement saying Lu’s comments were “not a policy declaration … but the expression of personal viewpoints during a television interview”.

Asked if China stood behind the envoy’s remarks, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson Mao Ning said China had been one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with former Soviet states.

“The Chinese side respects the status of the member states as sovereign states after the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Mao said, adding that on the issue of territorial sovereignty, Beijing’s position was consistent and clear.

China respects the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all countries and upholds the purposes and principles of the United Nations charter, she said, describing the country’s stance on Ukraine as objective and fair.

Neysun Mahboubi, a research scholar at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, said on Twitter that Lu’s comments were “totally stupid” and that “the level of incompetence is just staggering”.




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China vows to retaliate if US continues case against police officers accused of targeting dissidents in America

Thu, April 27, 2023 at 11:30 AM GMT+2

Beijing has vowed to retaliate if the US Justice Department continues to press charges against Chinese police officers accused of harassing and intimidating dissidents in America.

Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said on Thursday that the US was "countering basic facts, professional conduct, and the spirit of the rule of law, and is weaponising and politicising the law".

"We urge the US to immediately stop taking the wrong approach, and if the US is bent on going its own way, China will resolutely take countermeasures," she said.

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Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice announced that a total of 44 people had been charged over what it said was a "transnational repression scheme" harassing Chinese nationals living in the US, including the New York metropolitan area.

Those charged include 40 Chinese police officers and two officials with the Cyberspace Administration of China, the county's internet watchdog.

A statement from the US Justice Department on April 17 announcing the charges said the defendants "allegedly perpetrated transnational repression schemes targeting US residents whose political views and actions are disfavoured by the PRC [People's Republic of China] government, such as advocating for democracy in the PRC".

The defendants, all of whom are believed to live outside the US, are accused of creating fake social media accounts to harass and intimidate Chinese dissidents living abroad, according to the statement.

Meanwhile, two American citizens - Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59 - have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal Chinese police station in Manhattan's Chinatown.





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China jails US citizen for life on espionage charges
Hong Kong resident John Shing Wan Leung was chair of Texas branch of Chinese ‘reunification’ association

Helen Davidson in Taipei
Mon 15 May 2023 08.13 BST

A Chinese court has sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison on espionage charges.

John Shing Wan Leung, a Hong Kong permanent resident, was detained in April 2021 by Chinese security services. His sentence was announced on Monday by the Suzhou intermediate people’s court on its public WeChat account. No further information about his trial or charges were listed.

Leung’s sentence also included deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of personal property in the amount of 500,000 yuan. There are no previous reports or notices of Leung’s arrest or trial. Espionage cases in China are treated with almost no transparency, with trials often conducted in secret and long delays between convictions and sentencing. China’s justice system also regularly reports a conviction rate above 99%.

This month, amendments to China’s anti-espionage law came into force, broadening its scope and increasing the risk to foreign individuals and organisations operating in the country, according to observers.

It is not clear what Leung is accused of. Leung, whose Hong Kong and US ID numbers were published by the court, was born in Hong Kong, and was chair of the Texas branch of the Association for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (APPRC), according to Hong Kong media. The Guardian has not independently confirmed his identity.

National and state level APPRCs operate around the world, promoting Beijing’s claim over Taiwan and its plans for what it terms “reunification”. They are believed to be connected to the Chinese Communist party’s united front work department, a global influence operation.

In October 2020, the then US secretary of state Mike Pompeo designated the Washington DC-based National Association for China’s Peaceful Unification (NACPU) as a united front work department. The website of the NACPU, which says it was founded in the 1970s, also refers to itself as the Association for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification.

It describes its purpose as fostering cross-straight relations, uniting overseas Chinese, and to “adhere to the one-China principle and oppose all words and deeds that split China’s territory and sovereignty”.

“It is feasible to study the unification of China plan, and strive for the final and complete reunification of China,” it said.



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the return of the company town.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-14/ ... /102328578

Starting this month, thousands of workers in a Chinese city will be paid their wages entirely in digital yuan, in what has been described by the central government as a "milestone" for the currency.

Key points:
The digital currency was first trialled in 2019 and is now able to be used in 26 cities across 17 provinces
Authorities have been offering incentives for people to use the digital yuan
More than 5.6 million shops accept e-CNY and over 360 million transactions, worth about $22.2 billion have been made

Public servants and workers at state-owned enterprises in Changshu, Jiangsu province, will be able to pay for goods and services using the digital yuan, also known as e-CNY via their phones, much like the smartphone payment system.

However, since the digital yuan is issued by China's central bank — and not a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange like Bitcoin — there have been concerns about privacy and the power it gives authorities to control people's finances.

"Big Brother is not only watching you, but also your wallet," one Weibo user wrote.

Authorities started piloting e-CNY in 2019 across multiple cities, including Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi'an. It has now expanded to 26 cities across 17 provinces.
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