China commerce city Yiwu imposes quasi lockdown as local officials struggle to balance zero-Covid with business normality | South China Morning Post

The city of Yiwu in central Zhejiang Province, a major source of manufactured goods for the rest of the world, has imposed a quasi-lockdown amid a new coronavirus outbreak, in another sign of the difficulties local officials face when balancing a dynamic zero Covid-19 policy with the economic imperative of keeping businesses running. The Thursday lockdown of Yiwu, with residents encouraged not to "leave the city", comes just as authorities were trying hard to get the local economy back to normal after previous disruption. The city's gigantic wholesale markets, which sell made-in-China manufactured goods from shovels to shoes to nearly…