Local officials in China’s Shenzhen city are struggling to keep their cities running, even with the central regime’s newly branded “dynamic zero-Covid” policy, but will be dismissed if they challenge it. “It’s very hard for the government to maintain operations. Nobody works [under lockdown]. We can’t collect any tax [from enterprises and businesses],” Guo Qiang (Pseudonym), an official from Guangdong Province’s Shenzhen, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on March 21. Guo revealed difficulties that the local government is facing under the Chinese Communist Party’s zero-COVID policy. Over the past two years, hundreds of Chinese people have told The Epoch Times of the difficulties they have faced under the government’s lockdown, including no access to food, medicine, baby formula, and hospital treatment despite government assurances that they would get assistance to ensure their needs. The extreme policies have seen people die unnecessarily, including the sick who needed emergency medical treatment, and babies whose mothers couldn’t get medical …