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This is Wuhan now: A year later, the first post-pandemic city 13 minutes to read By: Christopher Buckley, Keith Bradsher, Vivian Wang and Amy Qin The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus. As residents look to move on, they cite a Chinese saying that warns against forgetting the pain after a scar heals. To many in this central Chinese city, the saying sums up a temptation to let go of the bad memories while revelling in the recovery. To families grieving in the shadows, it means the danger of hastily forgetting without a public reckoning for the lives needlessly lost. ....
Jan 23, 2021 The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus. As residents look to move on, they cite a Chinese saying that warns against “forgetting the pain after a scar heals.” To many in this central Chinese city, the saying sums up a temptation to let go of the bad memories while reveling in the recovery. To families grieving in the shadows, it means the danger of hastily forgetting without a public reckoning for the lives needlessly lost. A year ago when Wuhan shut down, it offered the world a forewarning about the dangers of the virus. Now it heralds a post-pandemic world where the relief at unmasked faces, joyous get-togethers and daily commutes conceals the emotional aftershocks. ....
A message from Wuhan residents to countries that scrutinized the city s lockdown, one year on Chen Qingqing co-leads the Global Times China desk. She covers diplomacy, Hong Kong affairs and Chinese tech firms. Chen Qingqing in Beijing, Yang Cheng in Wuhan Published: Jan 22, 2021 08:29 PM Updated: Jan 22, 2021 10:03 PM Editor s note: A year ago, Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first reported in China, made a decision that has little parallel in modern society: to lock down the city of 11 million. During the 76-day lockdown, the city struggled to save lives and contain the virus, while maintaining the daily lives of ordinary people, a strategy that Chinese top epidemiologists said to suffocate the virus within Wuhan. The city was therefore dubbed a heroic city, whose sacrifice paved the way for the quick recovery of the country. When the city returned to bustling normal life in April, and Western countries, one by one, faced a more severe onslaught of the coro ....
SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Jan 19, 2021 08:03 PM Tourists pose for photos at the Happy Valley Wuhan theme park in Wuhan, central China s Hubei Province, Jan. 1, 2021. People came to have fun and enjoy the view at the Happy Valley in Wuhan to greet the New Year on Friday. (Xinhua/Xiong Qi) The economy of the coronavirus-stricken Central China s Hubei Province contracted 5 percent last year to 4.34 trillion yuan ($669.45 billion), but all major indicators have been recovering at a faster pace and consumption returned to growth in December. The rate of economic decline narrowed greatly from the first-quarter figure of 39.2 percent plunge, when the provincial capital Wuhan experienced a stringent 76-day lockdown. ....