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CCP Official Declares China Will Go to Extremes to Control COVID-19 Before Party Congress

CCP Official Declares China Will Go to Extremes to Control COVID-19 Before Party Congress
This photo shows aviation ground crew wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on an aircraft that flew in from abroad at the airport in Yantai in China's eastern Shandong province on Sept. 18, 2022. Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images
Alex Wu
10/6/2022|Updated: 10/6/2022
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A provincial-level official of the Chinese communist regime publicly says extreme measures in pandemic control will be used for the upcoming Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress on Oct. 16.

During China’s National Day (Oct. 1) week-long holiday, authorities in the Inner Mongolia region, home to the Mongol ethnicity in Northern China, adjacent to Beijing, ordered the lockdown of a county and a city because of single COVID-19 case reports. At the pandemic control leadership meeting, Sun Shaocheng, the CCP party secretary of Inner Mongolia, said that to prevent the spread and spillover of the epidemic to Beijing, the authorities must use extreme control measures in a manner of “killing a chicken with a butcher’s knife that is used to slaughter a bull,” a Chinese proverb equivalent to using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.

Alex Wu
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Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.
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