Chinese leader Xi Jinping has reaffirmed the ruling communist party’s strict “zero-COVID” pandemic control policy in a recent speech.
Meanwhile, the regime has put out a new regulation trying to save China’s economy under the policy.
According to a report by China’s state media Xinhua, Xi said that officials must “do a good job in coordinating epidemic control and economic and social development efficiently, and resolutely overcome some current difficulties in economic development” during visits he made to Sichuan Province on June 8 and 9. He reiterated that the country should “unswervingly adhere to the general policy of ‘dynamic clearing’ of COVID-19.”…