The Latest Breaking News from Shanghai

Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China's "closed-loop" management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and work on-site in a secure bubble.

Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China's capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.

Electric vehicle and allied sector stocks extended their losses in the week ending May 6, caught in the vortex of the broader market sell-off seen in the final two sessions of the week. Chinese EV stocks led the week's retreat amid fears that they could be potentially delisted from U.S. exchanges.

China's capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai, where millions of residents have been locked down for over a month. The draconian movement curbs on Shanghai,…

China's capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai, where millions of residents have been locked down for over a month.

The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday approved China Eastern Airlines Corp's request to let it extend the rerouting of New York-to-Shanghai flights, over COVID-19 measures, to a different Chinese airport through May 31.

Hundreds of workers at Quanta Computer Inc's (OTC:QUCPY) Shanghai factory manufacturing Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) devices clashed with authorities and flooded past isolation barriers after weeks under lockdown on May 5, Bloomberg reports. Quanta is a critical partner for Apple, generating over 50% of its revenue from the iPhone-maker as it assembled MacBooks and other devices.…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's zero-COVID strategy is starting to derail another major item on the government's agenda: economic stability.

Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) looks to run two shifts at its Shanghai plant from May 16, Reuters reports. The additional shift would enable the EV maker to return factory output to pre-lockdown levels. Tesla aims to churn out 2,600 electric cars from the Shanghai plant per day. Also Read: Tesla Shanghai Workers Forced To…

ACM Research, Inc (NASDAQ:ACMR) reported a first-quarter FY22 revenue decline of 3.5% year-on-year to $42.2 million, missing the consensus of $51.8 million. The decline reflected lower revenue from single wafer wet cleaning tools, advanced packaging, and other back-end processing equipment due to COVID-19 restrictions in Shanghai.  The Shanghai lockdown negatively impacted revenue from…

China is setting up thousands of permanent PCR testing stations, with 9,000 already completed in Shanghai alone, as authorities seek to "normalise" tough pandemic controls even after the current round of lockdowns end.