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Gender imbalance deepens in rural regions; Tencent temporarily banned from releasing new apps; and the latest on China’s homegrown mRNA jabs

 SenseTime says it won’t face a cybersecurity review ahead of its Hong Kong listing; the founder of a major piracy site has been sentenced to prison; and China’s birth rate sinks to its lowest in four decades

Beijing downgrades relations with Vilnius over Taiwan issue; regulators fine pair of influencers close to $15 million for tax evasion; and shares of Evergrande’s car unit surge 11%

Plus, Henry Kissinger weighs in on the Xi-Biden virtual summit; Beijing and Washington ease visa restrictions on each others’ journalists; regulators set to go after carbon-intensive industrial crypto mining operations.

Beijing calls out hundreds of private companies pretending to be state-owned; highlights of the Caixin Summit 2021; and zoo managers punished for covering up leopard escape

A Shenzhen court approves the country’s first ever personal bankruptcy liquidation; Alibaba sees slower sales growth for Double 11; and the Beijing Stock Exchange gets ready for its grand debut

Regulators take a step closer to clearing the locally developed mRNA vaccines for use against Covid; social media app Xiaohongshu scores an $18 billion dollar valuation; and Chinese courts will blacklist people who sue under false pretenses

 Washington eases its Covid travel restrictions; Alibaba bets on bike-sharing startup Hello; and Beijing seeks to better synchronize the digital yuan and payment apps

New Oriental Education to close nearly 1,500 training centers; livestreamers are banned from recommending stocks; and Huobi intensifies its overseas expansion

Plus, China’s exports climb for the 13th straight month; Beijing gets tough on ‘diehard Taiwan separatists’; and quarantine requirements may soon be dropped for travel between the mainland and Hong Kong