Cured A/H1N1 flu patient (L, front) is interviewed by reporters when she steps out of hospital in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, June 19, 2009. The lady caming back from New York of the United States on June 7 is the frist A/H1N1 flu case in Jiangxi. (Xinhua/Zhou Ke)

China confirmed 33 new A/H1N1 flu cases Thursday, bringing the total on the mainland to 297 with no fatalities.

Financial hub Shanghai and southern economic powerhouse Guangdong Province reported nine and seven new cases, respectively, while the capital Beijing confirmed four from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 p.m. Thursday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Among other provinces, Fujian reported five, Sichuan three, Liaoniang two and Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Tianjin each confirmed one.

Of all patients, 135 have recovered and been discharged from hospitals, according to the statement.

A researcher dilutes the virus strains of the influenza A/H1NI for cuvette cultivation of its vaccination at a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 17, 2009. A total of 6 virus strains of the influenza A/H1NI supplied by the World Health Organization (WHO) were delivered here and started for their proliferated cultivation in the morning.(Xinhua/Zhou Chao)

A researcher puts the chicken' embryos inoculated with the virus strains of the influenza A/H1NI for cultivation of its vaccination into the incubator at a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 17, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhou Chao)

Editor: Olivia