China's tech hub relaxes COVID restrictions to restart industrial production
(2022/03/21)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/03/21/shenzhen_relaxes_covid_restrictions/
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The Chinese city of Shenzhen – widely billed as the tech manufacturing capital of the world – has relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions in ways the city government expects will allow industrial production to resume.
A Sunday [1]announcement details a new regime that requires a negative COVID-19 test result from the previous 48 hours to access newly reopened public transport services, shops, and public spaces. Such venues will operate at 50 per cent capacity for the next week.
The rules were introduced after the [2]week-long lockdown ordered on March 13 eased earlier than expected after sending a shiver across the tech world's supply chain. Shenzhen is a hub for both manufacturing and logistics.
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On March 18, Shenzhen's city government [4]announced that residents of five "zero districts" – the city has ten districts – could return to work and to public spaces, but must remain within their own district. Residents of the specified districts were also advised to "cut back on outdoor activities, visits and gatherings." Dancing with other residents remains prohibited.
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That change saw manufacturers like Foxconn resume some activity in the city, but the non-zero districts remained tightly locked down — with everyone bar essential workers required to stay at home and undergo three rounds of tests for COVID-19.
Limited exemptions were offered to delivery drivers who live in the zero districts and were allowed to move among those districts, but not enter the non-zero districts.
[7]China's top chipmaker pivots to domestic sales, struggles to satisfy demand
[8]Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and replaceable in company meeting
[9]Japan's earthquake disrupts already fragile tech sector
The updated regulations announced on March 20 still restrict activity in, and travel to, some sections of the city.
Those restrictions remain in place despite new COVID cases being very low. Sunday's [10]count was just 66 cases across Shenzhen's population of 20 million-plus residents. The 105 cases recorded on Thursday March 18 was the largest total recorded in the last week, and rather more than the 11, 27, and 66 cases recorded on the days leading up the lockdown.
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China maintains a policy of eliminating COVID-19 infections whenever possible. While the nation clearly understands the way lockdowns impact its own economy – and have wider global impact too – Beijing simply will not tolerate substantial COVID-19 outbreaks. ®
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[1] http://wjw.sz.gov.cn/yqxx/content/post_9625212.html
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/14/shenzhen_lockdown/
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/smic_q4_2021/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/13/pony_ma_tells_employees_tencent/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/17/earthquake_strikes_wobbling_already_fragile/
[10] http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/news/notices/content/post_9625037.html
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[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
A Sunday [1]announcement details a new regime that requires a negative COVID-19 test result from the previous 48 hours to access newly reopened public transport services, shops, and public spaces. Such venues will operate at 50 per cent capacity for the next week.
The rules were introduced after the [2]week-long lockdown ordered on March 13 eased earlier than expected after sending a shiver across the tech world's supply chain. Shenzhen is a hub for both manufacturing and logistics.
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On March 18, Shenzhen's city government [4]announced that residents of five "zero districts" – the city has ten districts – could return to work and to public spaces, but must remain within their own district. Residents of the specified districts were also advised to "cut back on outdoor activities, visits and gatherings." Dancing with other residents remains prohibited.
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That change saw manufacturers like Foxconn resume some activity in the city, but the non-zero districts remained tightly locked down — with everyone bar essential workers required to stay at home and undergo three rounds of tests for COVID-19.
Limited exemptions were offered to delivery drivers who live in the zero districts and were allowed to move among those districts, but not enter the non-zero districts.
[7]China's top chipmaker pivots to domestic sales, struggles to satisfy demand
[8]Pony Ma tells employees Tencent is ordinary and replaceable in company meeting
[9]Japan's earthquake disrupts already fragile tech sector
The updated regulations announced on March 20 still restrict activity in, and travel to, some sections of the city.
Those restrictions remain in place despite new COVID cases being very low. Sunday's [10]count was just 66 cases across Shenzhen's population of 20 million-plus residents. The 105 cases recorded on Thursday March 18 was the largest total recorded in the last week, and rather more than the 11, 27, and 66 cases recorded on the days leading up the lockdown.
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China maintains a policy of eliminating COVID-19 infections whenever possible. While the nation clearly understands the way lockdowns impact its own economy – and have wider global impact too – Beijing simply will not tolerate substantial COVID-19 outbreaks. ®
Get our [12]Tech Resources
[1] http://wjw.sz.gov.cn/yqxx/content/post_9625212.html
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/14/shenzhen_lockdown/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_onprem/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YjgGgkbD@cJMCWPDjHj2BQAAAMI&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/news/latest/content/post_9623643.html
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/smic_q4_2021/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/13/pony_ma_tells_employees_tencent/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/17/earthquake_strikes_wobbling_already_fragile/
[10] http://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/news/notices/content/post_9625037.html
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[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Covid's done, the vaccines work
The vaccines work, there's plentiful supply, major countries are over the 75% vax threshold, only a few anti-vaxxers left keeping it going at all, and their supply of delusional memes is running low. Covid19 is done.
China on the other hand, only 1/3rd vaccinated.... why get vaccinated if China has zero cases they thought? (!) They should focus on vaccination now.
A minor side point.
Have you noticed that the same group that were doing the Anti-vax/anti-mask stuff are the group now pushing the "Russia good, Ukraine evil" stuff? The Ruble Republicans? Tucker, Trump, Greene Cawthorn, etc.? The very same group supporting the coup attempt?
An implausibly tight overlap between the same groups, whose interests are 'vax fear'+ 'coup' + 'Putin good'? As if those ideas all go together somehow.
You wondered whose agenda they were following and whose propaganda set they were pushing? Where it was coming from? All those memes they spread on Facebook, they didn't draw themselves. Were they the Bannon trolls or the Russian trolls or Heritage Foundation trolls?
Now that whole group has flipped to pump Russian propaganda, right on que, and you have your answer.
See Tucker Carlson pretending the Soviet Union didn't really collapse, it was the deep state plot, pretending Russia didn't invade Ukraine, that its all a deep state plot too. "Boss Putin is good and the deep states wants you to hate him, why is that?". All manner of random barefaced Russian lies, Tucker repeats?
Now imagine a "President Tucker", of the Vichy Republicans, handing Alaska over to Russia the way Trump handed Syria over to Russia, or Yanukovych tried to hand Ukraine over to Russia.
There's always a figure among a group, someone who will sell out their own country for their own personal gain. Tucker had plans to be President and courted Putin's help + support in that. Putin's scratches his back, and Tucker will scratch Putin's. Tucker would outbid the others to be Putin's chosen one, anything American can be Putin's under Tucker. It all went pear-shaped and Tucker is busy trying to pretend his propaganda is really "truwthiness" dragging Fox News down with him. His Presidential hopes are finished now.
And his Fox New career too.
Next up for Tucker, 'Spotify podcasts' .