INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS
PUBLIC HEALTH
2003: The early days of SARS outbreak in China
The early days of SARS outbreak in China
2005: The news article that led to the strengthening of safer medical practices in Chinese hospitals
The news article that led to the strengthening of safer medical practices in Chinese hospitals
2008: The news article that led to the strengthening of Chinese food safety standards
The news article that led to the strengthening of Chinese food safety standards
2016: A vaccine scandal that shook China’s health system
While on probation, Pang conspired with her daughter to trade 260,000 of non-refrigerated vaccines to 18 provinces, and made 570 million RMB (75 million EUR) from the trade. The vaccines were feared ineffective due to the improper transport and storage, though unlikely to cause toxic reactions.
2019: Connecting the dots of China’s largest bribery scandal
In October 2019, Xing Yun, the Deputy Director of the National People’s Congress of the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia, was charged with bribery and sentenced to death with reprieve. With an estimated 449 million CNY (62 million USD) that Xing had illegally appropriated across his two-decade-long career in Inner Mongolia, it became at the…
2020: How a Wuhan doctor brought China to realise the seriousness of the Covid-19 epidemic
This story by Renwu Magazine sets out how Ai Fen became the first whistleblower. Ai Fen is a doctor at the Central Hospital of Wuhan. In December 2019, she was one of the first doctors to encounter patients infected with the virus that would become known as COVID-19. On 30 December, she received a diagnostic…