China Border City Locked Down for a Year; Regime Not Supporting Residents Who Are Subsisting on Savings

A woman receives nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 at a hotel in the city of Ruili, Yunnan Province, China, which borders Burma on July 8, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese regime has had residents in Ruili, the country’s border city with Burma, locked down for almost a year as a means to curb the COVID-19 outbreak in China, but it hasn’t given the people enough support, according to a local resident.

The local resident, using the pseudonym Gao, told The Epoch Times on Sept. 2 that he hasn’t been able to work for most of the past 12 months. As a result, his family has had no income, but as they aren’t yet beggars, the regime has only given them seven potatoes over the course of the year.