China has produced billions of vaccines for its 1.4 billion population as well as for export and donations to the rest of the world as a public good.

Its annual COVID-19 vaccine production capacity has reached 7 billion doses, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the annual output has exceeded 5.5 billion doses. That's a big improvement compared with the capacity of 5 billion doses in 2021.

More than 3.4 billion vaccine doses had been administered on the Chinese mainland as of January 13, data from the National Health Commission showed.

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Data editor: Zhao Hong

Graphic designer: Mukesh Mohanan