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What would happen if online deliveries from China’s tech giants stopped overnight? This city offers a glimpse Yujie Xue yujie.xue@scmp.com Volunteers check orders of daily necessity goods at a supermarket according to requests from residents in quarantine in Tonghua, northeast China s Jilin Province, Jan. 24, 2021. Photo: Xinhua/Xu Chang
A humanitarian crisis of sorts took place in a Chinese town last week after the local authority imposed draconian measures to lock down 300,000 residents to contain an outbreak of Covid-19.