Global Courant 2023-04-29 11:21:51
SHANGHAI – At the Bund, boisterous crowds throng on an ordinary Monday night, excitedly snapping photos and posing along Shanghai’s famous waterfront promenade, which overlooks the dazzling skyline of the financial center.
A year after China’s most open and cosmopolitan city was ordered into a two-month lockdown in April and May 2022, forcing its initial population of 26 million to stay at home without food and medicine, Shanghai appears to have recovered.
