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Medical workers outside the fever clinic of a hospital in Beijing, on Dec. 13. Andy Wong/The Associated Press Chinese leaders have reportedly delayed a key economic policy meeting amid growing signs that COVID-19 infections are surging in Beijing nearly a week after they jettisoned some of the world’s toughest anti-virus restrictions. State media reported late on Tuesday that the capital’s hospitals now have 50 COVID patients classed as critical or serious among rapidly rising cases that were mostly asymptomatic or mild. President Xi Jinping and other Politburo members and senior government officials had been expected to attend the closed-door Central Economic Work Conference, most likely this week, to chart a policy course for the embattled Chinese economy in 2023. A Bloomberg News report on Tuesday night, citing people familiar with the matter, said the meeting had been delayed and there was no timetable for rescheduling. Policy insiders and business analysts said the leadership wa...

A China Southern Airlines plane in Colomiers, France, on Nov. 26, 2018. REGIS DUVIGNAU/Reuters China Southern Airlines has scheduled two Boeing 737 Max flights for Friday, its mobile app showed, which if completed would be the first commercial services for the model by a Chinese airline since a March 2019 grounding. The scheduled flights are domestic journeys from the southern city of Guangzhou to Zhengzhou and from Guangzhou to Wuhan, the app showed. China Southern had also initially scheduled a return to commercial service for the 737 Max in October 2022 but did not use it on the planned flights. Boeing BA-N said it would defer to airlines to comment on flight operations, while China Southern did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The 737 Max was grounded in March 2019 following fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia but has returned to service around the world with the exception of China and Russia after modifications to the aircraft and pilot training. Foreign air...

Medical workers outside the fever clinic of a hospital in Beijing, on Dec. 13. Andy Wong/The Associated Press Chinese leaders have reportedly delayed a key economic policy meeting amid growing signs that COVID-19 infections are surging in Beijing nearly a week after they jettisoned some of the world’s toughest anti-virus restrictions. State media reported late on Tuesday that the capital’s hospitals now have 50 COVID patients classed as critical or serious among rapidly rising cases that were mostly asymptomatic or mild. President Xi Jinping and other Politburo members and senior government officials had been expected to attend the closed-door Central Economic Work Conference, most likely this week, to chart a policy course for the embattled Chinese economy in 2023. A Bloomberg News report on Tuesday night, citing people familiar with the matter, said the meeting had been delayed and there was no timetable for rescheduling. Policy insiders and business analysts said the leadership wa...