BEIJING, May 26 (BNA): Shanghai, the financial hub of epidemic-stricken China, unveiled more post-lockdown plans on Thursday as it moved toward a return to normal life, but the nationwide economic recovery is still a long way off, adding to the sense of urgency. For more support.
Reuters reports that Shanghai, which is set to officially emerge from lockdown on June 1, is cautiously easing COVID-19 restrictions, allowing more of its residents to get outside and returning more cars and vehicles to its once-crowded streets.
City officials said Thursday that students in middle and high schools can return to offline classrooms from June 6, after word earlier in the week that malls and supermarkets would be allowed to reopen, although in batches. , as of June 1.
The city of 25 million people on Thursday reported 338 new locally transmitted infections on May 25, the lowest level since mid-March and a far cry from the tens of thousands at the height of the outbreak in April.
On Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang said the economic difficulties in some respects were greater than they were in 2020 when the country was first hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak, in a bleak landscape for the world’s second largest economy.
Many private sector economists expect gross domestic product to contract in the April-June period from a year earlier versus first-quarter growth of 4.8%.
Li told thousands of government officials across China in an online conference that China will strive for “reasonable” GDP growth in the second quarter.
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