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The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday changed its position on a sought-after type of respirator from China, the KN95, announcing that the agency will authorize the mask for use in healthcare settings if it meets certain criteria.

In response to continued respirator shortages, the FDA issued new guidance, authorizing KN95 respirators if certain criteria are met, including evidence demonstrating that the respirator is authentic.

The US is “four or five years” behind China when it comes to home delivery. This is bad news for locked-down cities.

Shao Bingbing - the Courier for Meituan APP - who managed 120 home deliveries daily in Yiwu, before the outbreak of Covid-19.

At the peak of China’s Covid-19 outbreak, more than half of the country’s population — some 760 million people — were living under some form of home lockdown. But even as they hunkered down behind locked gates and guarded checkpoints, deliveries of groceries and KFC were often as little as 20 minutes away while parcels containing phone chargers and pajamas could arrive in hours.

Sam's Club, the high-end membership store of world retailing giant Walmart, is expected to open its flagship store in Shanghai, the third in the city, a proactive move in the face of the fierce competition accelerated by the opening of Costco Wholesale store last year.

Andrew Miles, president of Sam's Club China, said on Wednesday the outlets, growing with their members, are excited to add the flagship outlet into their rapidly expanding footprint, calling it "a testimony of our commitment to our members and China."

Changan Auto's Pure EV released in May 2019.

The Chinese auto market has not fired back up to the table in the first half of the year, as The Paper analyzed Sept 6.

A total of 12.37 million cars were sold in Chinese domestic market in the first half of the year, dropping by 11.8 percent from a year earlier, according to the statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.