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The epidemic in China is heating up again, experts warn that the virus can survive in the body for 4 months
Image : On 23 April, 2024, Chinese medical experts released a research report stating that after recovering from COVID-19/covid infection, the virus still survives in the body for 4 months. The picture shows the outpatient area of a children's hospital in Beijing on 23 November 2023. (Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images)
The covid epidemic in China is heating up again. On 23 April 2024, Chinese medical experts released a research report stating that after recovering from infection with the covid virus (CCP virus), the virus still survives in the body for 4 months.
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The covid sequelae constantly attracts attention
In the past month or so, hospitals across China have once again been crowded with patients with cold and fever symptoms, and tests have found that many people are infected with the covid virus.
On 23 April 2024, Professor Cao Bin’s team from the National Center for Respiratory Medicine at China-Japan Hospital published a scientific research report in the internationally authoritative medical journal "The Lancet". Studies have found that infection with covid can cause lasting and even serious damage to the human body.
The report pointed out that after people are infected with respiratory viruses including covi, they commonly experience "cold" symptoms, such as fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, coughing, sneezing, body muscle aches, and even palpitation and palpitations.
Cao Bin's team found that even if people infected with the new coronavirus have recovered, the new coronavirus will still survive in the patient's body for the next four months.
As soon as this research report was released, it immediately triggered heated discussions among mainland netizens. Many people sympathized with the covid sequelae: "Since COVID-19, I have been afraid to take colds and have to take medicine quickly."
“It’s hard to endure the sequelae of COVID-19, such as cerebral palpitations and fatigue, which have not been cured for more than a year.”
"I had 6 or 7 fevers last year, which was more than the number of fevers I had in the past ten years combined. Four months later, I had another fever."
Some netizens questioned the official use of "cold" instead of covid to confuse the public: "Are you talking about a cold or covid? Or are cold and covid the same thing?"
"There have been more people catching colds recently, and the symptoms are the same as those of covid infection."
Many netizens even said bluntly: "What I regret most is taking the COVID-19 vaccine." "Vaccines are the ones that cause the most lasting damage to the human body."
"After I took three shots of the vaccine, I was found to have a 3mm lung nodule. I don't dare to take the vaccine randomly anymore."
"I don't think many people will go back to get the vaccine."
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Xiamen Hospital: 95% of "cold" patients are infected with covid
The CCP has been covering up the covid epidemic but too many infected patients have caused concern in some cities. The official media had to downplay the report.
According to a report by Xiamen News on 21 March 2024, there has been an increase in covi-positive patients in Xiamen recently, and the number of outpatient and emergency visits has increased. At Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University, the outpatient waiting area of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine was filled with "cold" patients waiting for treatment, 95% of whom were infected with COVID-19.
Du Yanping, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Xiamen University, said, “After the Chinese New Year, we saw (patients with colds and fevers), and when we checked (nucleic acid), more than 95% were COVID-19, and there were obvious cases in the ward. "
Xue Keying, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen Medical College, said that in the outpatient clinic, especially when we encounter (patients) with fever, we will check and find that their symptoms of covid infection are similar to those of the flu.
Doctors warn that everyone should not take it lightly. If you do not take medicine in time after infection, it can easily lead to bacterial infection and even symptoms such as white lung, which can be life-threatening.
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Pediatrician: There are so many people infected with the epidemic, and medical staff are also infected
In mid-April, Yang Yuhang, an attending physician at the Department of Pediatric Internal Medicine at Shengjing Hospital Affiliated to China Medical University, posted a video on Douyin saying that there have been a lot of people around him who have caught a cold recently, and many people were tested and found to be infected with covid JN.1, regardless of whether they are infected with COVID-19. Whether in the ward or outpatient clinic, including the medical staff around him, he also became positive.
He said that this JN.1 strain is still relatively popular and is different from the original one. He reminded parents not to take their children lightly and not to take their children to crowded places. If they must go, wear a mask to reduce the chance of getting sick.
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Zhejiang community residents: Many elderly people died
On 8 April2024Ms. Liu from Jingning County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, told The Epoch Times that in her residential community, more of the older generation died. "They hold banquets and banquets in the community. If other people hold funerals or something, others will know what is going on in this family, and then the entire community will feel like there are more dead people."
She said, "Have you noticed that they (the CCP) seem to have just changed the name without changing the medicine, but in fact the thing (the CCP virus) is still there, and it is the original thing."
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Mainland doctor reveals: Authorities have banned "COVID-19"
Dr. Liu, the chief physician of a mainland hospital, revealed to The Epoch Times that the number of admissions to his hospital has surged, and most of them are patients with COVID-19 and long covid. Some were fine one day but died the next day. The hospital carried out the deceased in the middle of the night but did not dare to carry them out during the day.
Dr. Liu said that the hospital has held several special meetings, and the director asked the doctors not to admit being infected with covid. Whoever admits it will be responsible. "This is a nationwide operation. No information can be retained."
In the more than three years since the covid outbreak broke out, the CCP has been keeping secret how many Chinese people have died.
Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, previously warned the world, "Plagues like the 'Chinese Communist Party Virus' (Wuhan Pneumonia) come with a purpose and a goal. They are here to eliminate members of the evil party and those who are with the evil party of China." "Staying away from the evil CCP and not siding with the evil party" is the best way to avoid the epidemic.
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China's banned film exposes Wuhan's first COVID-19 patients with sores on their cheeks
Reporter : Wang Yanqiao / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2024/04/02/a103867093.html
A documentary has been widely circulated in mainland China recently, exposing images of people infected in the first wave of the covid epidemic in China. It was banned for two years because it was too real.
The protagonist in the documentary "80 Days in Jinyintan" is a veteran who is 1.8 meters tall and has a strong build. He is the first batch of people infected with the new coronavirus in Wuhan and a survivor.
The video records that during the 24 days he was hospitalized after being infected with the epidemic, he became critically ill four times, lost 40 kilograms, and suffered extensive ulcers on his cheeks.
Dong Yuhong, a European virology and infectious disease expert: "Patients with severe COVID-19 infection will have reduced lung function when their lungs are inflamed, and there will be insufficient oxygen in the body. Therefore, areas of the skin that belong to this type are prone to ischemia and hypoxia. He is prone to low immunity, so serious infections will cause ulcers and so on. "
As Bloomberg's condition worsened, during the 14 days he was on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), he developed acute renal failure and bacterial infection, as well as cardiopulmonary failure. His muscles were shaking uncontrollably in the video. One eye couldn't close, and the other was shaking uncontrollably.
Dong Yuhong: "The shaking of muscles generally reflects that the nervous system has been stimulated or damaged. This virus has a very common feature, that is, it can easily invade the nervous system, such as the loss of smell and taste. There have been many cases Research has proven that at least one-third of people infected with the new coronavirus may be accompanied by a neurological lesion."
The documentary showed that in Jinyintan Hospital, there were 24 patients using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) due to COVID-19. Bloomberg was one of the four patients who successfully weaned off extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Dong Yuhong: "It must be admitted that the CCP concealed the epidemic, which caused a heavy blow to the life and health of the Chinese people. It spread to the entire China in about one month, and spread to all over the world in three months. It has also caused 770 million infections and 7 million deaths around the world, and this number does not include deaths in China.”
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Citizen journalist Fang Bin has been out of prison for a year, and is forced to move out and is feared to live on the streets
Editor : Xiao Lv Sheng / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/5/2/n14238858.htm / Image : Wuhan citizen reporter Fang Bin. (Video screenshot)
Wuhan citizen journalist Fang Bin has been released from prison for a full year. Recently, due to pressure from the Wuhan police, the contract of the house he had rented for one year in Huangpi District of Wuhan was forcibly terminated, the water, electricity and gas supplies were cut off, and the door locks were changed. He said he might end up living on the streets.
On 1 May 2024, Fang Bin revealed to Radio Free Asia that he was recently forced to evict by his landlord in Huangpi District, Wuhan. On 27 April 2024, the landlord cut off the water and electricity in the rented house.
"They (the police) knew that I moved from Qiaokou District to Huangpi District, and Huangpi wouldn't let me live in Huangpi. They (the police) put pressure on the landlord and asked him to go out and kick me out. The landlord said, 'I can't stand it. If you can't bear it, leave as soon as possible,' he said.
According to the report, Fang Bin said that on 15 April 2024, he signed a one-year lease contract with a landlord in Huangpi District and paid one year's rent and property fees. Three days later, the local street office learned of the incident and notified the landlord to terminate the contract. "The landlord said, I'll give you the money back, please. However, the landlord couldn't say who put the pressure on the landlord."
A week after moving in, the landlord informed Fang Bin that he would sell the house for 500,000 RMB, and then the new buyer came forward to urge Fang Bin to move out. "I left on the 27th and opened the door on the 28th. On the 29th, the water and electricity in my room were cut off. Three days in a row on the 29th, 30th and May 1st. This morning, my door lock was broken again. I can't get in, the door is broken," Fang Bin said.
Fang Bin said that the Shekou Street Office in Huangpi District felt that his arrival created pressure to "maintain stability." "They think it's 'dangerous' for me to live here, and they want to 'maintain stability'... They also send people to look after me, and they have to incur this expense, and that expense. Anyway, they think (I am here) is troublesome. If someone comes, they will have one more person." Responsibility. It makes no sense for them to drive me away now. I have signed the contract. Why should they drive me away? If they want me to leave, the compensation is 3 to 10 times the amount according to the consumption law, because the landlord cannot rent out the house. For sale again. He said he had sold (the house)," Fang Bin explained.
No one answered the call at the Shekou Subdistrict Office of the Huangpi District Government.
According to the report, one of Fang Bin’s friends, Ms. Peng, said that after Fang Bin moved into his new home in mid-April, petitioners and rights defenders often came, making the authorities feel like they were facing a formidable enemy.
During the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan in February 2020, Fang Bin disclosed the true death situation at that time through a video, which attracted attention from the outside world. Later, he was arrested by the local police and sentenced to three years in prison for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." April 30 this year marks the first anniversary of Fang Bin’s release from prison. (Previous report: Wuhan netizens secretly visited the hospital to witness 8 corpses and were arrested that night)
On 30 April 2023, Fang Bin was released from prison and was immediately sent to Beijing by the Wuhan police. The Beijing police sent him back to Wuhan overnight. His family in Wuhan could not take him in because they were threatened by the authorities. At that time he was living on the streets. After that, Fang Bin lived in Qiaokou District, Wuhan. Because he was often interrogated by the police, he moved to Huangpi, a suburb.
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Unable to hide it, the CCP strengthens epidemic prevention and control and conducts nucleic acid testing at airports
Editor : Li Yun / Reporter : Xiong Bin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2024/05/01/a103876438.html
The covid epidemic continues to break out, and many people are suffering from repeated infections, but the CCP conceals it and does not report it, and the covid virus (Chinese Communist Party virus/CCP virus) has become a banned word. However, on the eve of the May Day holiday, the Chinese Communist Party’s Disease Control and Prevention Bureau issued a rare notice requiring all localities to strengthen epidemic prevention and control nucleic acid tests on incoming passengers. Analysts believe that the epidemic is too serious and the CCP cannot hide it.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Disease Control and Prevention Bureau issued a notice before the May Day holiday stating that the covid virus is still mutating and the number of people traveling during the May Day holiday will increase, which may increase the risk of epidemic spread.
The notice requires all localities to strengthen epidemic prevention and control in institutions such as elderly care, child care, and schools. Arrange for medical emergency duty such as fever clinics and emergency rooms. Check for symptomatic people to reduce the risk of epidemic spread.
Analysts believe that the epidemic in China is severe and the CCP is afraid, so it issued this notice.
Li Yuanhua, a historian living in Australia: "It has its own real epidemic investigation. In the past, it wanted to get away with it. It felt that the epidemic was not severe and would not report it, leaving it to fend for itself. But now, this kind of approach that goes against medical common sense has caused If it is not controlled with new mutations and contagiousness, there may be another large-scale outbreak, so it is afraid.”
The Chinese Communist Party’s Disease Control and Prevention Bureau also requires all ports and airports to pay close attention to COVID-19 and other epidemics, and conduct nucleic acid sampling tests for covid on entry personnel, strengthening health quarantine for arrivals from so-called epidemic-prone countries and regions.
Li Yuanhua: "They asked people from abroad to make nucleic acids, and they are ready to blame it again. It seems that this wave of epidemics came from foreign countries. In fact, the domestic epidemic has not stopped, and the epidemic has been serious in recent times. If there is a sudden new If an epidemic breaks out on a large scale and a large number of people die, the people will definitely criticize it. If you don’t allow testing, reporting, and diagnosis, you won’t be able to treat it or prescribe the right medicine. At least preventive measures None. In this way, it is preparing for a new wave of epidemics.”
The covid epidemic broke out in Wuhan at the end of 2019. The CCP claimed that it was “preventable and controllable and would not spread from person to person” and allowed 5 million people to leave Wuhan, leading to the global spread of the epidemic. However, the CCP has always blamed the epidemic from overseas.
In early 2023, the CCP announced that the epidemic was over, and the new crown became a banned word. Recently, people in mainland China have revealed to NTDTV that the epidemic has never gone away, and the authorities have been concealing it. Hospitals do not provide nucleic acid tests, and the new coronavirus is treated as a cold. As a result, many people have been infected repeatedly and many people have lost their lives.
Mr. Luo, a citizen of Yan'an, Shaanxi Province: "I see that there are a lot of old people who have died in the villages nearby. I also drove by. There are three or four hanging mourning halls. There are three or five people who died in a village. It’s the elderly. Young people are complaining about colds and fevers. There are many people with colds in March.”
Mr. Luo, a citizen of Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, believes that the death of old people and repeated colds among young people are related to infection with the epidemic and vaccination.
Mr. Luo: "It must be related to this vaccine. Like colds, repeated colds, fever and then dizziness, loss of appetite, cough, throat discomfort, over and over again. Now go to the hospital and I will give you a small cold. Hundreds or thousands of dollars. If you have symptoms, he will also give you cold medicine, Chinese medicine, and a lot of medicine for you to eat and drink. In short, he will let you pay."
Mr. Luo said that many people went to the hospital for medical treatment, and the money was spent and the people were gone.
Mr. Yao, a citizen of Hebei Province: "I have a friend who died suddenly six months after taking the vaccine. He seemed to be 48 or 49 years old. He was usually in good health. I told him not to take the shot but he did. After the shot, he suffered a cerebral infarction and then fainted. He collapsed and was rescued in the hospital. He never woke up. It cost him 70,000 to 80,000 RMB in a few days. He was later brought back to his hometown and died. "
Mr. Yang, a Guizhou resident, said that since last winter, almost all the people around him have been infected repeatedly but doctors have treated them as colds, leading to the death of many elderly people.
Mr. Yang, a citizen of Guizhou: "This man in his 60s or 70s died of a sudden illness. All the people I know were from rural areas. It seems that they didn't go to the hospitalS. They couldn't be cured in the hospitalS. They just relied on themselves to survive." Exercise at home.”
Mr. Yang revealed that he was infected with covid two years ago, suffered a sudden cardiovascular disease, and was unable to take care of himself. Once I heard overseas news, I announced my withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party and recited "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" every day, and his health quickly recovered.
Mr. Yang: "I recite it every day and exercise while reciting it. I am getting better. I couldn't walk before, but now I can run. I was so moved when I heard the stories on the Minghui website. I have passed them on. I am a person. I think I am also doing good deeds.”
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Falun Dafa Minghui website has reported a large number of real cases of people infected with the epidemic who sincerely chanted "Falun Dafa is good" and experienced miraculous physical recovery.
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A 90-year-old Shanghai petitioner was injured by the police while petitioning in Beijing
Liu Shuzhen, a 94-year-old petitioner in Shanghai, was persecuted repeatedly by the authorities after years of petitioning because her house was forcibly demolished by the government. On 26 April 2024, she went to Beijing again to report the situation. While walking on the road near Tiananmen Square, she was intercepted and injured by the police. After that, she was deported back to Shanghai and forcibly sent to a so-called legal training class. She is still not allowed to go home.
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Shanghai Virology Laboratory closed, teachers and students suppressed in rights protection
Chinese virologist Zhang Yongzhen was the first to analyze and publish the viral genome sequence during the covid epidemic. A few days ago, the P3 laboratory of Shanghai's "East China Institute of Pathogen Biology" that he directed was forcibly closed by the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. Students in the research team held banners outside the laboratory to protest but were suppressed by public security and security personnel. Beginning on 28 April 2024, Zhang Yongzhen led his students to sleep on the ground outside the laboratory overnight and continue to protest. However, all relevant information was blocked on the Internet. The East China Institute of Pathogen Biology is established in October 2020, with Zhang Yongzhen as the director and Shi Zhengli, another virologist famous for the epidemic, as the deputy director.
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Elderly people block roads in Guangshui, Hubei Province to protest against forced government cremations
On 1 May 2024, the Guangshui Municipal Government in Hubei Province imposed a cremation policy, which caused dissatisfaction among local elderly people. On 1 May, elderly people in the local Changling Town and Fuhe Town took to the streets to protest, blocking traffic and attracting thousands of people to watch. The government semt a large number of police officers to the scene to disperse the crowd. During this period, conflicts broke out and an old man fell to the ground.
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Real estate project in Enshi, Hubei is unfinished, owner’s sales office defends rights
The "Zhongliang Guobin Mansion" real estate project in Enshi, Hubei Province was unfinished. On 30 April 2024, a large number of owners went to the sales office to defend their rights. The crowd became excited, shouted slogans, and pushed and shoved security guards during the process. However, the rights protection action ultimately came to nothing.
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In 2024, the CCP will set off another storm of unemployment among college students
Image : On 10 August 2023, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, college graduates participated in a job fair. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Unemployment among college students has become a persistent problem in the CCP’s economic downturn. In 2024, China's college graduates will reach a record-breaking 11.79 million, 210,000 more than in 2023, and 1.03 million more than in 2022. There is no doubt that unemployment among college students has become the most urgent problem for the CCP.
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Youth unemployment rate rose in the first quarter, denting GDP growth
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China show that the unemployment rate for 16-24-year-olds in January, February and March 2024 were 14.6%, 15.3% and 15.3% respectively. On April 16, Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China, said , judging from the situation in the first quarter, the youth unemployment rate has increased slightly, which requires great attention.
Youth unemployment refers to the unemployment rate for people aged 16-24. From April to June 2023, the youth unemployment rate exceeded 20%, and in June 2023 it was as high as 21.3%. Afterwards, the CCP suspended the release of this data and tried to shrink the unemployment rate data by changing statistical methods. In January 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics adjusted the statistical caliber of youth unemployment rate, and school students will no longer be included in the statistics. This means that senior students who are about to graduate but have not yet found a job will no longer be counted in the unemployment statistics. In other words, even if all of the 11.79 million college graduates who are about to graduate in 2024 have not found a job, they will not be counted. included in the youth unemployment rate in the first half of the year. Of course, the CCP will continue to falsify data in the second half of the year.
Even after such whitewashing, the youth unemployment rate still showed an upward trend in the first quarter, and the youth unemployment rate data in February and March were 0.4 percentage points higher than that in December last year.
Social unemployment rate is often inversely related to economic growth. Internationally, measuring the relationship between actual economic growth rate and changes in unemployment rate is Okun's law, which was proposed by American general economist Arthur Okun in 1962. That is, the higher the economic growth rate, the lower the unemployment rate. A 1% increase in output will bring about a 0.5% decrease in the short-term unemployment rate.
Different from the West, the unemployment statistics of the CCP Bureau of Statistics are urban unemployment statistics. The urban labor supply is mainly university graduates and 300 million migrant workers. However, migrant workers are not included in the CCP’s urban survey unemployment statistics. Due to the lack of Real data supports that Okun’s law is difficult to apply in China.
According to the CCP’s own so-called employment elasticity coefficient data, each unit of GDP growth can create about 2 million jobs. If GDP remains at about 6%, it can barely absorb the employment of about 12 million college graduates every year. Rhodium believes that China's real GDP will be only 1.5% in 2023, which means that the CCP's economic growth can only provide about 3 million new jobs, which means that 3/4 of college students will be unemployed that year.
Even according to the CCP’s GDP data, it was 5.3% in the first quarter of 2024, an increase of 1.6% from the fourth quarter of 2023, but the youth unemployment rate in March was 0.4% higher than in December 2023. Isn’t this a slap in the face to GDP?
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The CCP suppresses private enterprises, resulting in the unemployment of college students and the phenomenon of barrier lakes
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China shows that private enterprises are more capable of absorbing employees than state-owned units of the Communist Party of China.
As of the end of 2022, there were 56.12 million people employed in state-owned units of the Communist Party of China. In the past 20 years, the number of people employed in state-owned units has decreased by more than 10 million. From 2004 to 2022, the proportion of employees absorbed by state-owned units in total urban employment has increased from 25% dropped to 12%. Private enterprises and individuals employed 295 million people, a cumulative increase of 240 million people, and their proportion of total urban employment increased from 20% to 60%. According to calculations by the Research Group of the Employment Promotion Committee of the Chinese Society of Labor Economics, each new small and micro enterprise will create 3.4 new jobs. For each new job created, state-owned enterprises need to invest 3-5 million yuan. Non-state-owned large-scale enterprises need to invest 3-5 million yuan. Enterprises need to invest 500,000-700,000 yuan, while small and micro enterprises only need to invest less than 50,000 yuan.
Zhuang Congsheng, former chairman of the China Private Economy Research Association, said that the jobs provided by party and government agencies, enterprises, institutions and state-owned enterprises at all levels now only account for about 12% of all jobs, and the jobs in foreign-funded enterprises account for about 5%. Accounting for more than 83%.
However, the Chinese Communist Party authorities have been suppressing private enterprises for many years, compressing their living space, engaging in public-private partnerships, confiscating private property, and cracking down on private entrepreneurs. Private bosses’ hundreds of millions of properties were wiped out overnight, and dozens of family members were implicated in many tragedies and imprisoned. All. At the end of 2023, female entrepreneur Ma Yijiayi was criminally detained by local police on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. She has undertaken 10 government projects such as relocation projects for poverty alleviation (a central special poverty alleviation fund project), kindergartens, and primary schools in Liupanshui, Guizhou. However, he was owed money for 8 years and was persecuted for no reason for collecting debts from the CCP.
Three years after the epidemic, the economy has been in recession, and private enterprises have experienced a sudden wave of bankruptcies. In 2022, 460,000 companies across the country will close down, and 3.1 million companies will cancel or suspend operations. In the first quarter of 2024, the number of catering companies in China that have been canceled or suspended has reached 459,000, of which 167,000 were in January, and 167,000 were in February. Accounting for 112,000 households, reaching 180,000 in March.
Currently, the demand for employment in small and medium-sized enterprises is sluggish, resulting in increased employment pressure for college graduates. Judging from the details of the PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) in March, the employee index of small manufacturing enterprises was only 47.6, which is far below the boom and bust line, a year-on-year decrease of 1.8 percentage points, and 0.3 percentage points lower than the overall level of the manufacturing industry.
According to the Central News Agency, Peng Peng, executive director of the Guangdong Provincial Restructuring Research Association, said that the Chinese Communist Party's private enterprises have low confidence in the market, large enterprises are increasingly laying off employees, and small and micro enterprises are hesitant to recruit talents. All these factors are exacerbating the involution of employment. A survey of 1,410 private companies in China conducted by Beijing Dacheng Law Firm showed that 49% of companies admitted that they have no intention of recruiting heavily in the next two years, 26% do not plan to expand, and 6% are considering layoffs.
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New productivity cannot solve the problem of high unemployment rate
Compared with the manufacturing industry, the service industry can absorb more jobs per unit of GDP growth. In recent years, China's service industry has absorbed six to seven million more new jobs per unit of GDP growth than the manufacturing industry. The growth of the service industry is the main force driving employment.
However, the leader of the Communist Party of China has called for high-quality development this year and vigorously develop new productive forces. The CCP’s economic development has always obeyed the political baton and often developed in a movement-like manner. Policies, capital, talents, and technology will all be invested in new productivity fields such as new energy, new materials, and information technology. This not only fails to solve the employment problem, but also increases the unemployment rate. .
According to multiple mainland media reports, China's chip industry is facing serious challenges. As of December 11, 2023, data shows that 10,900 chip-related companies have been deregistered or revoked, a year-on-year increase of 69.8% and an increase of 89.7% from 2022. , on average, more than 31 chip companies declare bankruptcy every day. Assuming that each company employs an average of about 50 people, more than 5 million people will be unemployed in the chip industry alone in 2023.
From 2017 to 2023, China's automobile industry revenue increased from 8.8 trillion to 10.1 trillion, but the profit rate dropped from 7.8% to 5%, which is 0.8 percentage points lower than the average level of industrial enterprises. China's average car price will drop by 15% in 2023. In the first two months of 2024, China's auto industry's profit margin will further drop to 4.3%. New energy vehicle companies generally suffer losses, with losses ranging from RMB 10,000 to RMB 30,000 per vehicle. The loss-making sales of electric vehicles will lead to the elimination of a large number of car companies. The new energy vehicle market is accelerating its elimination. New energy vehicle brands that are unsustainable due to low sales, such as Gaohe, WM, GAC Mitsubishi, Skyline, AIWAYS, etc., All have been eliminated from the circle. 2024 will be an inevitable year of layoffs for practitioners in the new energy vehicle industry.
Affected by the Chinese Communist Party’s new energy vehicle industry, Tesla has been in a bad situation this year. On April 24, the topic “Tesla was exposed to have broken contracts with fresh graduates” became a hot search topic. The fresh graduates Tesla recruited this spring who signed contracts were also He was laid off before entering the Tesla factory. Musk announced on April 15 that he would lay off more than 10% of his employees, which means that 14,000 people will be affected. A Tesla China employee revealed that Tesla China’s sales and delivery Positions such as vocational and after-sales service are all hardest hit by this layoff, with some departments laying off as many as 40% of their employees.
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“The government will not admit that the unemployment rate is as high as 50%”
As China's economic situation becomes worse and worse, first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou are also declining. Foreign businessmen have withdrawn, various industries have gradually declined, the local unemployment rate has increased significantly, and the space for career development has become smaller and smaller. Some college students have to return to their hometowns to find jobs.
Recently, China's higher education consulting organization Max Research Institute released the "China 2018-2022 University Graduate Training Quality Tracking and Evaluation Blue Book" stating that half a year after graduation, the proportion of fresh undergraduates (college students) going to county employment has increased significantly. 20% for the class of 2022 to 25%.
Statistics indicate that the two major industries with the highest proportion of employment among college students in the county in 2022 are education and government public administration. Among them, education employment accounts for 23.6%, and government and public administration employment accounts for 14.9%. Compared with the national proportion of 2022 undergraduate graduates in these two major industries, they are 10.6 and 8.1 percentage points higher respectively.
Statistics also point out that the monthly income of college graduates working in the county has increased from 4,640 yuan (the same below, approximately NT$20,900) in the class of 2018 to 5,377 yuan in the class of 2022, and their employment satisfaction has also increased from 67% in the class of 2018. Rising to 76% for the Class of 2022.
The CCP uses this to encourage more and more graduates to turn their attention to small cities and set off a wave of employment in rural areas.
The CCP concealed the truth that it dared not tell. Most of the college students who returned to their hometowns for employment were Brahmins in the county. Behind the scenes was the nepotism of local powerful people. "A cup of tea, a cigarette, and a newspaper to read for a long time." As early as the 1970s and 1980s, The existing employment ecology within the CCP system of sons inheriting their father's business has been followed to this day. What about three generations of police, three generations of tax, three generations of banks, and three generations of tobacco? The wealth does not flow to outsiders. They rely on government privileges and the state-owned system to allow local elites of the CCP to take over power and inherit wealth. Recently, a 10-year-old boy in Guangde City, Xuancheng, Anhui Province claimed to have grown up. The hot search for inheriting his father's business and becoming the president of the Agricultural Development Bank is a typical example.
In response to the data released by Michaels, Voice of America actually interviewed two mainland youths. The interviewees believed that Michaels' survey did not reflect the truth. A 21-year-old student surnamed Wei, who is studying in the Department of Tourism, said that there are few job opportunities, low wages, and poor industries in the county. Except for government agencies, it is difficult for private companies to survive in the local area.
A student named Wei took the tourism service field of Chongqing as an example. The monthly salary in major cities is 2,000 to 3,000 RMB but in county towns it is only 1,000 to 1,500 RMB. This figure is somewhat different from the data of Michaels mentioned above. A classmate surnamed Wei also said that taking the school he attended in Chongqing as an example, only about 25 people in a class of 50 had job opportunities. Their true feeling was that "the Chinese government will not admit that the unemployment rate is as high as 50%."
In July last year, Zhang Dandan, associate professor of economics at Peking University, published an article titled "Youth Unemployment Rate that May Be Underestimated" on Caixin.com, stating that after calculation, China's youth unemployment rate reached a maximum of 46.5% in March 2023. Zhang Dandan’s data is relatively close to that of Chongqing student Wei.
What is the real unemployment rate in Chinese society? I'm afraid it's hard for outsiders to imagine. As the most ideologically active group in society, college students are unemployed upon graduation, which will definitely bring huge pressure to social stability and the CCP regime. According to November 2023 data from the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, the number of young people aged 16 to 24 will reach a peak of 161 million in 2033. This shows that the youth unemployment problem will be a nightmare that the CCP cannot shake off in the next 10 years.
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China's pharmaceutical sector has become a corruption-hit area and 30 people have been fired this year
Editor : Fang Xiao / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/5/1/n14238415.htm / Image : The picture shows a schematic diagram. The picture shows the pharmacy of a hospital in Shanghai, China. (AFP Photo/Liu Jin)
Corruption in China’s pharmaceutical field is the new “hardest hit area” for corruption. At least 30 people in the pharmaceutical field have been investigated this year, including Yang Xiaoming, the former chairman of Sinopharm Biotech, who led the development of the Sinopharm vaccine. Since last year, the Chinese Communist Party has launched an aggressive campaign to crack down on corruption in the pharmaceutical sector, and a large number of people with power in the system have been dismissed. Analysts believe that the CCP’s campaign-style anti-corruption cannot solve the fundamental problem, and that all corruption is caused by the CCP system.
According to comprehensive mainland media reports, in the past month or so, people in China’s pharmaceutical field have been dismissed, including hospital directors, health commissions, drug regulators, medical insurance and other medical system officials. Since this year, at least 30 people in the pharmaceutical field have been investigated.
On 26 April 2024, Duan Yufei, the former party secretary and director of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, was officially announced to be under investigation. After Duan Yufei resigned, his successor Zhu Hong was investigated in November last year.
On 26 April 2024, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China issued an announcement stating that when the COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Wuhan in 2020, Yang Xiaoming, the former chairman of China National Biotech, who led the team to take the lead in developing and producing the Sinopharm inactivated vaccine, was suspected of serious violating laws and disciplines, he will be removed from his position as a deputy to the National People’s Congress.
In addition, various corruption incidents in the medical system have been reported in various parts of China. Among them, Xinjiang reported three cases of corruption related to the medical field, including illegal acceptance of gifts, acceptance of private banquets and travel arrangements, and other serious violations of discipline and law. Those involved in the case were expelled from the party and punished by public office, and suspected criminal issues were transferred to the prosecutor for review and prosecution.
Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Xi'an, Hainan, Tianjin and other places have also received relevant notifications, in which some people have been accused of using their authority to facilitate medical supplies purchasers and engineering companies in contracting projects, and illegally receiving property from them, amounting to RMB 16.01 million. Yuan.
Since 2023, the Chinese Communist Party authorities have made the pharmaceutical field a new target of regulation. Many high-level hospital officials have been investigated for corruption, and the news continues to be trending.
On 21 July 2023, the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China jointly held a meeting with nine ministries, commissions and bureaus including the Ministry of Public Security and the Audit Office, and decided to launch a one-year centralized rectification of corruption in the pharmaceutical field nationwide.
On 11 August of the same year, Zhang Chuanyue, Party Secretary of Qianxinan Prefecture Hospital in Guizhou Province, was dismissed. On 12 August, Li Xiangqian, the director of Xi’an Chest Hospital, was investigated.
On 14 August Zhang Yunqiang, former deputy secretary of the party committee and president of Guiyang First Hospital, was investigated. On the same day, Du Pengfei, the former Party Secretary of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, was investigated.
Since the third quarter of last year, an average of more than 20 hospital directors or secretaries in China have been investigated for corruption every month.
Mainland media statistics show that as of August last year, more than 170 hospital directors or secretaries had been dismissed, more than double the number in the entire previous year. Among the secretaries and deans suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, there are many famous experts, professors, and department directors from provincial and municipal tertiary hospitals. For example, Lu Yongtao, former Party Committee Secretary of the Third Provincial Hospital of Shandong Province and chief expert in neurology; Fan Yuqiang, former Party Committee Secretary of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and an expert in orthopedic trauma, etc.
The Chinese Communist Party authorities claim to rectify corruption in the pharmaceutical field, completely break the "hidden rules" of the industry, form a high-pressure situation, and promote "dare not corrupt, cannot corrupt, do not want to corrupt".
However, He Anquan, a former Shanghai surgeon living in the United States, believes that such campaign-style anti-corruption cannot solve the problem. Because problems in all walks of life in China, including corruption in official circles and corruption in the medical industry, are all caused by the system.
He Anquan told VOA that the system itself is corrupted by power. It monopolizes the country's resources and talents and rules the entire 1.4 billion people through one-party dictatorship. Monopolize a variety of resources and power. Monopoly will inevitably lead to corruption, including official corruption and medical corruption, which are all caused by this system.
Based on his past experience of working in a hospital in Shanghai, he pointed out that corruption in medical institutions runs from top to bottom, and each has its own "smart tricks." Corrupt elements will never let any power or authority in their hands go to waste.
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Current Foreign Minister Manele of Solomon Islands elected as new Prime Minister
Reporter : Chen Ting / Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/5/2/n14238834.htm / Image : On 2 May 2024, newly elected Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele of Solomon Islands spoke at a press conference outside the Parliament Building in Honiara. (Alarics Fugui/AFP via Getty Images)
Solomon Islands lawmakers elected a new prime minister by secret ballot on Thursday (2 May 2024), choosing Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele. There are concerns that this may strengthen the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the Pacific country.
On Thursday, 50 parliamentarians elected the next prime minister in the capital, Honiara. In the end, Manele won 31 votes and opposition leader Matthew Wale won 18 votes.
No party won a majority in national elections held last month. Ahead of the prime ministerial election, both camps have lobbied independents in the hope of winning their support.
Outsiders believe that if the country is led by an opposition, it may reduce the country's relations with Beijing. Some opposition candidates have proposed re-establishing closer ties with Taiwan and reviewing security agreements with China.
In 2022, current Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare reached a security agreement with CCP China, and a leaked draft agreement allowed Chinese warships to enjoy safe harbour approximately 2,000 km (1,240 miles) from the Australian coast. This has caused great concern in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, which are also paying close attention to the election because of its possible impact on regional security.
Sogavare, who severed ties with Taiwan and forged close ties with Beijing during his five years in power, did not seek re-election and his party backed Manele.
However, Mihai Sora, a former Australian diplomat and researcher at the Lowy Institute think tank, believes that although Manele has served as Solomon Islands foreign minister for nearly five years, he is unlikely to strictly follow the pro-communist policies of the previous government. policy.
"Sogavare's leadership is personal and he is clearly hostile to Australia and other countries. He makes it difficult for the United States to rebuild relations," Sola said.
"Our expectation for Manele is that he will be more willing to accept offers of cooperation and assistance from a range of partners," he said.
Sola said that compared to Sogavare, Manele "has a good record of working with all international partners."
"The people have spoken," Manele said outside parliament on Thursday. He called for calm, noting that Solomon Islands had a history of post-election violence.
He added that the economy was recovering from the covid pandemic and anti-government riots in 2021, and the government would soon announce tax, forestry and mining policies.
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