China Fails to Implement a Unified Market System Amid COVID Lockdowns

China Fails to Implement a Unified Market System Amid COVID Lockdowns
Workers transfer daily food supplies and necessities for residents during the COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China, on April 5, 2022. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Luo Ya
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Beijing recently unveiled its unified domestic market system as residents in Shanghai face food shortages due to the regime’s strict COVID-19 lockdown measures. The latest economic plan has left the public wondering if it will lead to a major disaster reminiscent of the Mao Zedong era.

Haizhong Ning was a state employee and worked for a real estate company in China, before moving abroad and working as a reporter with a focus on Chinese affairs and politics for more than seven years.
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