Slump in growth and lockdown frustration: Party leader Xi under pressure

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China’s head of state and party leader wants to secure another term in office in the fall.

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Beijing A sports stadium in Beijing’s Changping district. “It’s closed here,” says one of the security women at the entrance, pointing to a note attached to one of the glass doors. “Changping Gymnasium is being prepared as a central quarantine station,” it says. Electricity and water are already available, says an employee of the stadium company when asked, only the beds are missing.

In an emergency, where basketball games and badminton competitions were held until recently, hundreds, thousands of people infected with corona should be accommodated – or people who have had contact with people infected with corona. The Chinese capital is bracing for a surge in cases. In the past few days, the local government has called on the 22 million residents of Beijing for a city-wide mass test for the first time after an accumulation of infections. Residents feared a draconian curfew like in Shanghai and stocked up on groceries.

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