{"id":1605874,"date":"2022-08-15T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T10:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605874"},"modified":"2022-08-15T06:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T10:16:59","slug":"more-chinese-cities-locked-down-under-strict-zero-covid-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-chinese-cities-locked-down-under-strict-zero-covid-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"More Chinese Cities Locked Down Under Strict &#8220;Zero-COVID&#8221; Measures"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmore-chinese-cities-locked-down-under-strict-zero-covid-measures%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=1605874&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>China has put several more of its cities and tens of millions of residents under new lockdowns, including the world\u2019s largest wholesale hub and port cities. Many travelers are now stranded and struggling for food, production orders have been canceled, and businesses are closing because of the Chinese regime\u2019s strict \u201czero-COVID\u201d measures.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chinese media, since early August, a new wave of COVID-19 has swept through 25 of China\u2019s 31\u00a0provinces, spanning from the southernmost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hainan\">Hainan<\/a> Province to the Xinjiang region and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tibet\">Tibet<\/a> in the west.<\/p>\n<h2>World\u2019s Largest Wholesale Hub Under Full Lockdown<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-yiwu\">Yiwu<\/a> city in the eastern Zhejiang Province, which is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china-locks-down-worlds-largest-wholesale-hub-south-china-sea-port-due-to-new-covid-19-outbreak_4648301.html\">world\u2019s largest wholesale hub<\/a>, has been under a partial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-lockdown\">lockdown<\/a> since early August, when new cases caused by the more infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 were reported. On Aug. 11, authorities put the city in a three-day full lockdown, using the more than 500 reported cases as justification for the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Chinese regime has concealed the real scale of its outbreaks and has long been suspected as underreporting the number of cases in the country. Meanwhile, the regime uses reported outbreaks to implement strict control measures, such as city-wide lockdowns and mandatory testing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the full lockdown in Yiwu, public places are closed, trains are suspended, and residents are barred from leaving their homes. Businesses have been forced to stop operating; many small and medium-sized enterprises have complained of heavy losses. The \u201clive streaming sales center\u201d Jiangbei Xiazhu stopped shipping goods in early August, and hundreds of foreign businessmen were unable to go to the Yiwu market to purchase goods.<\/p>\n<p>As the \u201ccapital of the world\u2019s small commodities,\u201d Yiwu\u2019s products are exported to more than 210 countries and regions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4334290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/03\/13\/amazon-china-1200x812-1200x812.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4334290\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/03\/13\/amazon-china-1200x812-600x406.jpg\" alt=\"CHINA-BUSSINESS-COMMERCE\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Visitors gathering at Amazon booth during the 2016 China International Electronic Commerce Expo in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China, on April 11, 2016. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>A new COVID-19 outbreak has been reported in the city of Zhuhai,\u00a0in south China\u2019s Guangdong Province, which is a production center for electronics in the Pearl River Delta, a major economic area of China.<\/p>\n<p>Since May when China locked down many areas and cities, including financial center Shanghai to \u201cdynamically clear COVID-19,\u201d a large number of orders from foreign countries have been canceled. That led to many private enterprises in the Pearl River Delta announcing they would close their businesses before the end of August, since they could no longer afford to continue, while many factories put workers on unpaid \u201cvacations\u201d ranging from days to several months.<\/p>\n<h2>Another South China Sea\u00a0Port City\u00a0Under Lockdown<\/h2>\n<p>After Sanya, a port city at the southern point of Hainan Island which is known as \u201cChina\u2019s Hawaii,\u201d was put under city-wide lockdown on Aug. 4, leaving more than 80,000 tourists stranded, authorities locked down the provincial capital Haikou on Aug. 8. Haikou is an important industrial port for the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Public transportation has been halted, all residents are required to take PCR tests and aren\u2019t allowed to leave their residential compounds, and all inbound and outbound flights have been canceled.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4651786\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/09\/GettyImages-1242379734-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4651786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242379734-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4651786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242379734-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Residents and tourists line up to take COVID-19 PCR tests in Sanya in southern China\u2019s Hainan Province on Aug. 8, 2022. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>On Aug. 13, representatives from Hainan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control said at a press conference that on Aug. 12, there were 1,426 newly confirmed cases in the island province. From Aug. 1 to Aug. 12, a total of 6,399 confirmed cases were reported.<\/p>\n<p>So far, six cities in Hainan have been locked down.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Haikou surnamed Liang told The Epoch Times that she and her family went to Sanya for a visit but has been locked down in rental housing since Aug. 2, while all the shops have been closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey suddenly locked it down without giving any notice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Liang said that the authorities distributed relief materials but not to the stranded tourists. She said that under the lockdown, she could not buy food and had no way to ask for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called [the] 12345 [helpline] for help, but no one dealt with it. We called the community office, but they couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New outbreaks have also been reported in other provinces across the country, and more cities and districts are under \u201cstatic control,\u201d a term created by the Chinese regime to refer to a lockdown.<\/p>\n<h2>Tibet and Xinjiang<\/h2>\n<p>New COVID-19 infections have been reported in Tibet since early August, after no cases were reported for 900 days. Some districts in the capital city of Lhasa have been shut down. Shigatse has been under city-wide lockdown since Aug. 8, while Ngari Prefecture has been locked down since Aug. 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4134154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/12\/01\/China_Language_21335255214820-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4134154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/China_Language_21335255214820-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"China school\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4134154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/China_Language_21335255214820-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"China school\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Students attend a class at Nagqu No. 2 Senior High School, a public boarding school in Lhasa, Tibet, on June 1, 2021. (Mark Schiefelbein\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<p>Zhao Yi (a pseudonym), a businessman who returned to Ngari from Lhasa, was stranded in Shigatse with a group of four on Aug. 7. They stayed at a local friend\u2019s company with eight people who work for the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are almost run out of rice now, which is the only food we have,\u201d\u00a0Zhao told The Epoch Times on Aug. 11. \u201cWith so many people eating it, there are only half a bag of rice left, and it will be gone in two days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhao said the group has no way to obtain more food under the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Wu Juan (a pseudonym), who had been on a car tour of Tibet with a friend, was stranded in Shigatse on the way to Ngari from Lhasa. She told The Epoch Times that they wanted to leave, but they had to show the results of a PCR test, which is required three times over three consecutive days. However, local authorities aren\u2019t conducting tests, so they can\u2019t leave.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities in Xinjiang, which is a majority Uyghur Muslim region, the new outbreak in the capital city Urumqi was caused by the Omicron variant. The local government locked down six districts on Aug. 10 for five days. All public transportation has been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>There have been new cases reported in the cities of Yining, Altay, Hami, Turpan, Korla, and Hotan in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p><em>Xiao Lusheng, Gu Xiaohua, and Zhao Fenghua contributed to the report.<\/em><\/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-alex-wu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Alex Wu\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has put several more of its cities and tens of millions of residents under new lockdowns, including the world\u2019s largest wholesale hub and port cities. 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