{"id":1411498,"date":"2022-03-30T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411498"},"modified":"2022-03-30T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:29:47","slug":"china-lockdown-victims-running-out-of-food-while-regime-worries-about-computer-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-lockdown-victims-running-out-of-food-while-regime-worries-about-computer-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Lockdown Victims Running Out of Food While Regime Worries About Computer Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-lockdown-victims-running-out-of-food-while-regime-worries-about-computer-chips%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411498&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese Communist Party authorities have seemingly prioritized microchips over hungry citizens this week, according to two\u00a0reports published by the state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> on Tuesday, which reveal the Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257123.shtml\">ensured<\/a> semiconductor production continued unabated in Shanghai during its latest lockdown to contain the Chinese coronavirus while simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1257107.shtml\">failing<\/a> to provide sufficient food to residents\u00a0of northeastern China\u2019s Changchun city during its own lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Local Communist Party officials in Shanghai have ordered some semiconductor factory workers to live inside microchip foundries since mid-March, the <em>Global Times<\/em> revealed on March 29. The Party issued the extraordinary edict in an effort to allow semiconductor fabrication plants to continue normal operations while also complying with the city\u2019s strict lockdown orders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMany chip companies in Shanghai\u2019s Zhangjiang High-tech Park are running under a closed-off procedure by having employees work and stay in the factory campus so as to ensure production,\u201d the newspaper detailed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn employee from a local navigation chip company in Zhangjiang said that several engineers have been living in the company for around two weeks, aiming to keep operations as normal as possible,\u201d according to the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>News that Shanghai\u2019s semiconductor factories have enjoyed priority status during the city\u2019s latest lockdown came on the same day the <em>Global Times<\/em> revealed in a separate article that local Communist Party officials in the city of\u00a0 Changchun in northeastern China let their own citizens go hungry during Changchun\u2019s latest coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAuthorities in Changchun, capital of Northeast China\u2019s Jilin Province apologized to local residents for the short supply of vegetables as the city\u2019s two major vegetable wholesale markets were temporarily closed due to the sudden epidemic flare-up of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus],\u201d the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to COVID-19, two major wholesale food markets in Changchun have shuttered, leading to a shortfall in food supply,\u201d Changchun Deputy Communist Party Secretary Liu Renyuan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/capital-chinas-jilin-province-apologises-food-shortages-due-covid-curbs-2022-03-29\/\">told<\/a> reporters on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>He said this problem was further aggravated by \u201ca shortage of workers that has delayed deliveries to homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are particularly anxious and angry about this, and we express our deep apologies to the public for the impact and inconvenience caused,\u201d Liu said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Jilin\u2019s provincial government responded to Changchun\u2019s municipal-level failure over the weekend by agreeing to supply the city with 1,000 tons of vegetables in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany cities in Jilin, such as Baishan and Ji\u2019an, have come to their rescue by delivering vegetable packages to Changchun,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported on Tuesday. \u201cA total of 210 tons of vegetable packages were transported to Changchun from Baishan between Saturday and Monday. Ji\u2019an also sent 30,000 vegetable packages to the city in short supply of vegetables on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai\u2019s government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220328\/e48f13e6fcb643f2822b372e5ec079c6\/c.html\">ordered<\/a> each half of the city of nearly 26 million residents to lock down for five days at a time starting on March 28. The ongoing lockdown order is part of Shanghai\u2019s effort to conduct mass testing for Chinese coronavirus on its populace and to restrict movement to prevent further transmission of the disease. The metropolis, which is both China\u2019s financial hub and home to the world\u2019s busiest shipping container port, has been battling its latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus since early March. The government of Jilin locked down the entire province, which borders both North Korea and Russia, earlier this month to contain a surging outbreak of the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/29\/china-puts-shanghai-most-stringent-antivirus-measures-ever\/\">Shanghai\u2019s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/28\/coronavirus-china-builds-19-makeshift-hospitals-in-northern-province\/\">Jilin<\/a>\u2018s current epidemiological struggles are indicative of a nationwide resurgence of the Chinese coronavirus across China in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist Party authorities have seemingly prioritized microchips over hungry citizens this week, according to two\u00a0reports published by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday, which reveal the Party ensured semiconductor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}