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Chinese Regime Locks Down World’s Largest Wholesale Hub Under Its ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy

Chinese Regime Locks Down World’s Largest Wholesale Hub Under Its ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy
Container handlers transport containers at the railway port in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on April 15, 2017. Reuters
Alex Wu
4/30/2022|Updated: 5/1/2022
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The Chinese communist regime has locked down the world’s largest wholesale market—Yiwu city in China’s Zhejiang Province—since April 27 because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Experts believe the regime’s implementation of the extreme “zero-COVID” policy in the “world’s small commodity capital” is the latest blow to the global supply chain.

After three local COVID-19 cases were found, authorities ordered all residents not to leave their residential complexes or villages, according to a statement posted on Yiwu’s city government’s official social media WeChat account. They closed schools and prevented people from entering public places, government agencies, enterprises, and institutions across the city without a negative nucleic acid certificate within the past 24 hours.

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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