Baoding, a Chinese city about 90 miles south of Beijing with a population of ten million, suspended several bus line services due to the financial crisis of municipal governments in the wake of three years of pandemic control under the communist party’s Zero-COVID policy.
In a question-and-answer section of local bus services, the authorities responded to a resident’s inquiry about when the suspended bus line will be resumed.
In the answer, the bus operators admitted that since the pandemic in early 2020, bus companies suffered a 70 percent loss of business, and many were forced to withdraw from the market.
Last November, eight local bus lines decided to temporarily halt their operations due to the declining passenger flow, plummeting revenue, dwindling funds, and high maintenance and operating costs with the severe impact of the pandemic….