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Macau

Macau 25 years on: embracing growth beyond gaming

Reclaiming aggressively, breaking gambling monopoly, diversifying the economy: where is Macau heading next?   

China’s 20th Party Congress

China’s apex of power: key figures in the country’s leadership elite

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Explainer | How a new wave of Covid-19 spread through China

Environment

Explainer | How China's largest algae bloom turns golden beaches into sprawling grasslands

China’s Communist Party turns 100

A visual history of China’s Communist Party

A special infographic showing 100 years of the party and its influence on China

China census and demographics 2021

Explainer | Visualising China Census: latest population data, demographics and facts

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Coronavirus pandemic

Wuhan’s then and now: a year after the world’s first lockdown

One year on, what life is like after a 76-day citywide lockdown in the Chinese central city of Wuhan.

Coronavirus pandemic

14-day diary of a quarantined traveller in mainland China

Chinese overseas

Visa denied: Are Chinese students a threat to US security?

1.42 million Chinese are studying abroad but US visas are being revoked as tensions escalate during the pandemic. How will it impact the international education sector and China's domestic job market?

Flooding in China

China’s flooding crisis caused by torrential rain and a weak dam

A visual explainer about why China’s Yangtze River is on the brink of another natural disaster, curated by the SCMP infographics team

Coronavirus pandemic

Is Beijing’s second wave of Covid-19 already under control?

Just when China’s capital was thought to be coronavirus-free, a second wave of coronavirus has been traced to a wholesale market in Beijing. 

Coronavirus pandemic

Russia’s Covid-19 surge means China cannot fully relax its guard

China is vulnerable to a new wave of infections from Russia.  

Coronavirus pandemic

Decoding Covid-19

After its discovery last December, in Wuhan, China, the virus started to spread around the world, causing panic. The Antarctic is, as yet, the only continent where there are no confirmed cases. 

Coronavirus pandemic

A visual guide to China’s wildlife trade

Beijing has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in response to a coronavirus epidemic linked to a wildlife market in Wuhan in the central Chinese province of Hubei.

Infographics

Chinese zodiac 2020: All you need to know about the Year of the Rat

Rats are quick-thinking, optimistic, and adaptable, which gives them the edge in 2020's rat race. Read our infographic to see why.

Waste Management

Sorting out China’s waste problem

China plans to recycle up to 35 per cent of household waste by 2020

Infographics

The People’s Republic of China: 70 years of changes

China’s rise has been impressive by many standards. There is no clearer indication of the country's progress than its share of the world economy. Measured in purchasing power parity, China’s share of global GDP fell from an estimated 32 per cent in 1820 - when Qing dynasty emperor Daoguang began his reign - to a mere 5 per cent at the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. And yet, by last year, China’s share had climbed to nearly 19 per cent.

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Infographics

Tiananmen Square crackdown: 21 most-wanted student leaders’ stories

A week after armed forces cleared Tiananmen Square the Beijing Public Security Bureau distributed a circular of the pro-democracy movement’s 21 most wanted student leaders. Here’s what happened to them.

Infographics

China’s coal capital is dying as local natural resources are exhausted

For more than a century, coal was the centre of life for the residents of Fushun, 50km from the Liaoning provincial capital of Shenyang, earning the city the nickname “capital of coal”.

Infographics

The wandering treasure of the Forbidden City

Infographics

How Beijing’s Forbidden City became one of the largest world museums

the South China Morning Post Graphics Team is pleased to present this 8 chapter collection about the future, present and past of one of the biggest museum collection in the world. Meet the life in the Palace, the collection odyssey running away from wars and the exquisite architecture of the once Forbidden City in our preferred way to tell stories... visually

Infographics

How the death of the Qing empire gave birth to the Palace Museum

Bloody war and revolution: one of the world’s greatest museums rose from the ashes when imperial China toppled

Infographics: Asia

Interactive | How has rural backwater Shenzhen caught up with Hong Kong?

Forty years ago Shenzhen was a backwater town with a population of 20,000 and little industry or agriculture. But after Deng Xiaoping’s reforms the town developed rapidly and is arguably surpassing Hong Kong as China’s leading city for industry and technology

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