{"id":1427420,"date":"2022-04-10T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427420"},"modified":"2022-04-10T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T11:59:45","slug":"shanghai-residents-under-lockdown-shout-at-visiting-vice-premier-we-are-starving-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shanghai-residents-under-lockdown-shout-at-visiting-vice-premier-we-are-starving-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Residents Under Lockdown Shout at Visiting Vice Premier: \u201cWe Are Starving to Death\u201d"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fshanghai-residents-under-lockdown-shout-at-visiting-vice-premier-we-are-starving-to-death%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=1427420&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--><p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sun-chunlan\">Sun Chunlan<\/a>, a vice premier of the Chinese regime, visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-shanghai\">Shanghai<\/a> earlier this week, where tens of millions are under COVID-19 lockdown, she was greeted by residents shouting from their apartment windows: \u201cThere is no food left!\u201d and \u201cWe are starving to death!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sun was accompanied by a swarm of local officials, cameramen, several vans with black tinted windows, and police vehicles. Yet the streets were empty. The residents could only view the envoy from their own apartments. Some were brave enough to shout from their windows or balconies. Someone called out to the officials, \u201cCan you arrange some vegetables to be sent over?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officials, however, as seen in a video posted by residents in Jiading district, had no reaction whatsoever as if they did not hear anything.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Chunlan, former head of the United Front Work Department, was appointed vice premier in 2018. Out of the four vice premiers, she is the only female and the oldest one. Since the pandemic, she has been staging high profile visits to COVID-stricken cities. This was not the first time she was shouted at.<\/p>\n<h2>Shanghai \u2018Must Win the Battle\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Amidst mass testing and draconian lockdowns, Sun went to Shanghai with a stern message from Beijing, \u201cunswervingly adhere to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-zero-covid\">zero-COVID<\/a> policy and win the battle against COVID as soon as possible!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic broke out in 2020, Sun has assumed the unofficial title of \u201cCOVID messenger\u201d delivering Beijing\u2019s orders to cities around China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2352085\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/11\/07\/GettyImages-466351460-1200x881.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2352085 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/11\/07\/GettyImages-466351460-1200x881.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Sun Chunlan, Chinese regime vice premier and former head of the United Front Work Department. (Wang Zhao\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>She went to the northeastern province of Jilin in late March. In Jilin City, residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmaker.com\/embed\/fcc1dec6-532f-4ec4-ad8f-9cf0a561b9fd\">shouted<\/a> \u201cwe have no veggies!\u201d from apartment buildings.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-December 2021, Sun visited Xi\u2019an city, 12 million population, when it was in lockdown. Sun urged the municipal government to \u201cquickly reach zero cases.\u201d While in Xi\u2019an Gaoxin district, Sun was greeted by residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmaker.com\/embed\/7e28c664-5cfd-4e2e-ba04-ff476f932094\">calling<\/a> loudly \u201cI want to eat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in March 2020 when the COVID broke out in Wuhan, Sun went to Wuhan. The residents called out \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/everythings-fake-top-chinese-official-heckled-by-sealed-in-wuhan-residents-during-visit_3261977.html\">Fake, fake, it is all fake<\/a>!\u201d during her visit.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the Wuhan residential neighborhood suffered the consequences. The entire neighborhood was in complete lockdown, nobody was allowed to enter or exit.<\/p>\n<h2>Shanghai Lockdown Continues<\/h2>\n<p>Shanghai has been under lockdown since April 1. On April 4, Sun Chunlan ordered the municipal government to \u201cachieve zero COVID in society at large (excluding quarantine hospitals) as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to recent online postings, the municipal government issued a notice saying the lockdown will continue until at least May 1. As for what will happen after May 1, the notice said, it will be decided on May 1 whether to open up or continue the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Many neighborhoods in Shanghai are in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinas-draconian-lockdowns-are-fueling-rising-discontent_4370430.html\">chaotic state<\/a>. Some people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/i-beg-you-to-save-my-husband-chinas-mass-lockdowns-leave-locals-desperate-for-medical-care_4360652.html\">can\u2019t get treatment<\/a>. There is a serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/shanghai-residents-want-ccp-officials-to-bring-them-food-amid-draconian-lockdown_4379289.html\">lack of food<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/unrecorded-deaths-plague-aged-care-facilities-in-locked-down-shanghai_4384983.html\">Some elderlies\u00a0died<\/a> in senior facilities without family members around. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/forced-parent-child-separations-fuel-outrage-in-locked-down-shanghai_4379062.html\">Babies are separated from their parents<\/a> because their COVID-19 test results are different.<\/p>\n<p>Videos also show truckloads of food supplies stuck in the outskirt of the city unable to reach those in need. There are also rotten vegetables and other foods sitting on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, at the makeshift quarantine sites, one can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmaker.com\/embed\/a095f4be-34e8-4f35-9087-31500b149417\">boxes of food<\/a> piled up in trash dumps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-kelly-song\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Kelly Song\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kelly Song is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on all things related to China.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sun Chunlan, a vice premier of the Chinese regime, visited Shanghai earlier this week, where tens of millions are under COVID-19 lockdown, she was greeted by residents shouting from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"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-1427420","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\/1427420","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427420\/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=1427420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}