More Chinese carriers have started flying along the country’s busiest trunk route between Shanghai and Beijing again this month, indicating life and work are getting back to normal after the recent resurgence of Covid-19. There were 32 flights from Shanghai to Beijing and 23 from Beijing to Shanghai on Monday, versus only one flight a day between the two metropolises during the height of the pandemic.

京沪航班密集增加：4日，上海飞往北京的航班数量共计32班、北京飞往上海的航班数量为23班。京沪航班批量恢复，业内人士称“意味着上海航空市场迎来实质性复苏”。

产业及公司新闻

China's box office earnings for the first half of 2022 totaled 17.18 billion yuan, with revenue generated by Chinese titles accounting for nearly 85 percent, media reported Monday. Due to COVID-19 outbreaks in the last four months, the number of movie viewers has fallen to 397 million in the first half of the year, data from the Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan showed.

上半年国内票房超171亿元：据猫眼专业版统计，截至6月30日，今年上半年全国电影总票房报收171.73亿元，观影人次3.97亿，放映场次5149.5万。

The implementation of car purchase tax cut policy have saved about 7.1 billion yuan for car buyers, data from the State Taxation Administration on Monday. China decided in late May to halve the car purchase tax for passenger vehicles priced at no more than 300,000 yuan and with 2-liter or smaller engines.  

购车税减征首月减税71亿元：国家税务总局最新数据显示，车辆购置税减征首月，，全国共减征车购税71亿元，减征车辆109.7万辆。国务院在今年5月31日提出了车辆购置税减征政策，规定对购置日期在2022年6月1日至2022年12月31日期间，且单车价格（不含增值税）不超过30万元的2.0升及以下排量乘用车，减半征收车辆购置税。

The Fuling shale gas field in Chongqing produced a record high of more than 3.63 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the first half of this year, up 1.9 percent year on year, according to Sinopec on Monday.

涪陵页岩气田产量创新高：中石化数据显示，1月至6月，江汉油田涪陵页岩气田累计生产天然气36.33亿立方米，产量创历史同期新高。

Chinese internet healthcare platform WeDoctor has secured more than 1 billion yuan in its latest financing round, led by a state-backed industrial investment fund in eastern Shandong province. Other state-owned funds are in negotiations with WeDoctor to integrate local medical and healthcare systems onto the platform.  

微医获超10亿元融资：数字医疗服务平台微医近日获得超10亿元的融资。这次领投方为山东省的国有产业投资基金。有消息称，还有多地国有产业投资基金正在与微医洽谈，计划通过资本+产业合作加速数字医疗平台与本地医疗健康服务体系的融合。

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies and its electric vehicle-making partner Sokon Automobile have launched their second Aito-branded EV model, Aito M7, at the release event yesterday. Priced from 319,800 yuan, over 10,000 orders of this six-seat SUV were placed in the first two hours of sales after 6 p.m. yesterday.

华为AITO第二款车型上市：7月4日，华为新品夏季发布会推出AITO品牌第二款车型——豪华智慧大型电动SUV问界M7。据华为官微，问界M7定位于中大型SUV，售价31.98万元起，发布2小时后订单量已破万。

金融市场消息

In the six months ended June 30, both the number of IPOs and the value of funds raised on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses outstripped other capital markets around the globe, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers data on Monday. Although the number of IPOs slumped by 31 percent in the first half from the same period last year to 169, the amount of money raised surged 48 percent year on year to 311.9 billion yuan, while the average amount raised by each company doubled from a year ago to 1.8 billion yuan. There will probably be between 330 and 380 listings on the mainland this year, raising as much as 635 billion yuan.

沪深成为全球前二大上市目的地：7月4日，普华永道发布了2022年上半年中国内地和香港IPO市场表现及前景展望。2022年上半年，A股市场有169只新股，融资额达到3119亿元人民币，IPO数量比去年同期（245家）减少了31%，但融资额比去年同期（2109亿元）上升了48%, 平均融资额为18亿元人民币，比去年增加了100%。2022年上半年，A股市场IPO不论数量还是融资额均超过全球其他各大资本市场，以融资额计算，上交所、深交所分别成为全球第一和第二大的上市目的地。