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After the lockdown was lifted in Shanghai, protests broke out in other Chinese cities as well.
In the midst of this, for the first time in history, Prime Minister Li Keqiang gathered 100,000 civil servants in a video conference and effectively criticized the containment-oriented quarantine policy, raising mixed voices within power.
Correspondent Sung-woong Kang reports from Beijing.
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Yanjiao, Hebei Province, China, adjacent to the capital Beijing.
About a thousand people took to the streets to protest, demanding that people be allowed to commute to Beijing.
This is because livelihoods have become difficult as vehicles to enter Beijing are frequently banned due to high-strength lockdown measures.
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However, the police took action, and some citizens were injured in the process.
Residents claimed the police had beaten them.
“The police are beating people. The police are beating people.”
As protests grew, Beijing municipal authorities eventually cleared the checkpoint to the side of the road and allowed him to go to work.
Although collective action by residents is rare in China, a different atmosphere from the past is also being perceived.
Even a public commentator who usually represented the government came out to help, saying that the suffering of the residents was great due to the quarantine.
Premier Li Keqiang last week, for the first time, summoned more than 100,000 people, including front-line officials, through video connection and criticized him.
He de facto criticized the so-called ‘zero corona’ policy centered on containment, saying, ‘It can only be quarantined when there is development’.
It is a different voice from President Xi Jinping’s warning three weeks ago not to doubt or deny the ‘zero corona’ policy.
In particular, as President Xi is expected to be elected for a third term, differences within power are being accepted more sensitively.
In the midst of this, the Chinese health authorities have made a rather ambiguous position that they should promote economic and social development while maintaining the ‘zero corona’ policy.
This is Sungwoong Kang from YTN in Beijing.
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