Shanghai’s 2022 lockdown, which lasted two months, left economic and psychological scars on the metropolis.

In China, each woman went from having about three children in the late 1970s to now one. Decades later, the Chinese government wants women to have three children again but is meeting resistance.

U.S.-China tensions have put Chinese businesses on edge.

While China’s most high-profile executives express unflagging optimism on TV, for small business owners, the picture is more complicated.

Chinese officials have lifted the harshest restrictions of the zero-COVID policy, but consumers are still cautious amid surging infections.

Most workers who leave small towns for higher pay in big cities can’t bring their families with them. For nearly three years, travel restrictions have kept them apart.

After nearly three years of China’s zero-COVID policy, citizens are exhausted and some are calling for more than just an end to the restrictions.

Under President Xi Jinping, tech and real estate oversight has tightened, while the private tutoring sector has been flattened.

“There was a convenience shop owner nearby me who ate nothing but instant noodles for weeks,” says Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak.

China cuts it U.S. debt portfolio to under $1 trillion, possibly to support its currency or reduce exposure to potential U.S. sanctions.