Hong Kong | In Shanghai, the famed shopping streets have yet to return to their pre-pandemic hum. Though the harsh coronavirus restrictions that gripped the country finally ended in December, small businesses in the commercial heart of China are still struggling to find a pulse.
“It really still isn’t OK,” said Liu Jun, who has run a flower shop near Shanghai’s famed Jing’an Temple for the last six years – half of which were plagued by unpredictable lockdowns under President Xi Jinping’s strict zero-COVID policy.
