After nearly 2 months of strict lockdown under the zero-COVID policy, Shanghai streets have a new look—camping tents. They belong to those who are temporarily on the streets due to the lockdown; many are delivery men who can’t return home.
Shanghai police won’t tolerate the unseemly image of the tents and their owners and are mistreating the delivery men who help keep local residents from starving.
The Chinese edition of The Epoch Times recently learned from three delivery riders about the current situation and the hardships they face in Shanghai.
The New Homeless
Yan Dong (pseudonym), a delivery man from neighboring Anhui Province, said that in the lockdown, the streets are blocked, surrounded by wire mesh, to reach any residential complex requires miles of detour, and navigation apps have become completely useless….