For more than two months, the country has been in de facto lockdown. Factories, businesses and schools were closed in the battle to stop the spread of the deadly Covid-19 epidemic. So far, the death toll has hit more than 3,000 with nearly 90,000 people infected in the country.Without burying you in data, two cities most westerners are aware of - Shanghai and Beijing - report work resumption figures of 45.47% and 37.14% respectively. That argues the U.S. may be emerging out the far side of this epidemic perhaps by July ... one can hope.
Still, slowly, Chinese citizens are getting back to work, according to a flash survey by Alibaba-owned Gaode, which is also known as AutoNavi. Earlier this week, the mapping, navigation and location-based services app revealed a snapshot of life in the world’s second-largest economy.
The leading city was Dongguan in Guangdong province with a “work resumption” figure of around 49.5% while Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, was at the bottom of the table on 12.5%.
*Caveat: Asia Times is headquartered in Hong Kong. It may therefore be coerced by the CCP to report less-than-candidly on issues of great importance to Beijing.
