The Chinese Communist Party's biggest concern is unemployment. Jobs and livelihoods, hit by months of coronavirus lockdown, are the top priority.
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Such measures are a step forward, but fall short of covering the tens of millions of unemployed workers. But the coronavirus made this year worse than usual. No one was paying as much as before. Travel had been impossible in the first few months of the year, and while middle and upper-class workers adapted to teleconferencing from home, grassroots workers like him watched their savings evaporate as they tried to eat cheaper.It has been the same for Zhang. He has worked in 10 different fields already, he said, but never managed to find a stable income.
But he hadn’t gone. You could never be sure back then whether you might get the virus or not — and his village was quarantined anyway.of 726 villagers in seven rural provinces outside Hubei by Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Program found that almost all had stopped working for a full month after quarantines began, largely because their workplaces closed and travel was restricted.
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