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The company hasn't cared about us since the first day of the pandemic. They are very irresponsible towards us. This money is earned by risking our lives.

A previously unheard term: "History of No Positive Cases." In other words, if someone has ever been positive, they lose the qualification for even the most basic job.

The restaurant industry in Shanghai is falling deeper into a经营困境 as they face the challenge of "resuming work without dine-in services."

The real self-rescue situation of Shanghai’s restaurant industry.

Shanghai has issued the *Several Policy Measures to Support the Healthy Development of Self-Employed Businesses*, supporting self-employed businesses in suspending operations voluntarily.

Among the diners at the same table, a representative is recommended, commonly known as the "table leader."

Once a street filled with established restaurants and bustling crowds, it has now become desolate.

With the pandemic recurring, Shanghai’s consumption is unlikely to experience a clear “V”-shaped rebound like Wuhan’s after its reopening.

Most of them closed in mid-March, and the suspension has already lasted for more than two months. “An interruption may well mean no chance of starting over.”

It is necessary to be vigilant against remarks about pay cuts and layoffs that undermine confidence in Shanghai’s development prospects.

Authorities erected fences around the bridge underpass, making it increasingly difficult for the riders living there to find a place to sleep.

From suspension of work and production to resumption, the difficulties faced by different types of enterprises in Shanghai and surrounding areas.

Located in Pudong, Shanghai, the Donghai Elderly Care Hospital has had at least a dozen caregivers test positive and taken away for quarantine, with severe cross-infection issues inside the facility.

The domestic workers demanded that follow-up quarantine and living arrangements be properly handled, that responsibility be clearly assigned, and that the housekeeping agency refund the previously collected 2,000 yuan service fee.

Every day, she put on protective gear and became a “Big White” in the public restroom.

A group of aunties returning from work to their rental apartments were reported to the police by the property owners as potential threats, and then “evicted” from the compound by the neighborhood committee.

Migrant workers who built the fangcang shelters were left without accommodation, using water from fire hydrants to make instant noodles, sleeping on concrete floors or even on the streets, and becoming infected during construction.

To meet the construction deadline, he once went two days and two nights without sleep, and, out of concern for exposure risk, limited his water intake to avoid using the toilet.

Those transporting materials to the fangcang shelter and bringing in work meals are all people. We can only enter after testing negative for COVID, but there is still no way to ensure we won’t get infected.

A migrant worker trapped in a Shanghai urban village speaks in his own words.

About how they sustain their livelihoods while carrying out epidemic prevention measures to avoid virus transmission through the circulation of goods

Several truck drivers told *China Newsweek* that their income has dropped significantly compared with before the pandemic, and because of the epidemic prevention risks, they also carry the stigma of being “like rats crossing the street, scorned by everyone.”

They built clay stoves by the roadside, gave each other haircuts on small stools, and even had fishing rods and nets. By the “frozen” roadside, there was a small river, where they would catch fish.

For many companies and enterprises, aside from resuming work, the biggest challenge remains logistics: ports and highways. Beyond demurrage fees, the hardest part is obtaining a travel permit.

The global economy has already felt the ripple effects of Shanghai’s lockdown, impacting everything from commodity prices to electric vehicle production.

As Shanghai gradually recovers from the pandemic, we revisited those who were once homeless.

While delivering supplies to Shanghai, these couriers also faced challenges such as on-site quarantine and lack of accommodation.

The logistics drivers living in their vehicles had almost no time to change clothes or take a shower.

The lockdown caused countless workers to lose their livelihoods, making access to food their greatest challenge.

The emergence of a small gap may have a significant impact on the economy.

Without the reopening of Shanghai’s ports, a large number of enterprises in the upstream industrial chain of the Yangtze River Delta could face severe losses at any moment.

After a month of lockdown, ordinary people were already struggling to find food, dealing with endless rounds of nucleic acid and antigen tests, as well as constant quarrels and insults in neighborhood chat groups. Now, on top of that, they even had to scheme and compete just to keep their own jobs and those of their colleagues.

The surreal and bizarre pandemic control measures have caused many entrepreneurs to lose confidence.

Every day we were locked down was “expensive.”

When direct and hidden costs are combined, they approach Shanghai’s total industrial output for the entire year of 2021.

Because they tested positive, recovered workers cannot find jobs, cannot return to their hometowns, and are forced to live on the streets.

Migrant workers contributed to the fight against the pandemic, yet became the most expendable sacrifices.

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After a wave of closures of physical venues such as cinemas and bookstores, literary and artistic groups, as well as individual artists, also found themselves at a crossroads between staying and leaving.

In the Third Month of Shanghai’s Lockdown, Facing Various Hardships and Uncertainties, Small Shops Are Exhausted.

In the post-pandemic era, an economic downturn is a foregone conclusion.

A company's prospectus reveals to us the business miracles unfolding in the hidden corners of Shanghai amid pandemic lockdowns.

As a medical startup relying on technology for its livelihood, any lockdown forces the suspension of outpatient services and surgeries, resulting in zero offline revenue.

“It’s not that they don't want to return to work, it’s that they really can’t.”

During the Lockdown, Huolala Drivers Stranded in Shanghai Continue to Take Orders, Living in Their Vehicles.