SHANGHAI expects to face weeks, if not months, of slow recovery until economic activity is fully restored from the Covid lockdown that began in March, reports Bloomberg.
Based on the experiences of other Chinese cities like Wuhan in 2020 and Jilin earlier this year, it will take time for shops to reopen or factories to secure supplies and resume production.
Most of Shanghai's 25 million people can move freely, many factories and businesses remain closed or operating below capacity with the harbour - the world's biggest - remains backed up and truck traffic is at about a quarter of pre-Covid levels.
In Wuhan, it took until 2021 for the economy to recover from the damage sustained from the initial Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 and the more than two month lockdown that followed.
Xian took months to recover from the lockdown that ended in late January this year as retail sales fell 15 per cent year on year throughout Shaanxi province.
'We're talking about long supply chains that have been disrupted for more than eight weeks so it will take some time to stabilise,' said American Chamber of Commerce president Eric Zheng in Shanghai.
The shutdown has been a 'huge test' for global supply chains, he said, and while the government has been working on reducing transport bottlenecks, there are still restrictions on drivers crossing into shanghai or leaving the city to go to other provinces.
Said logistics investor EmergeVest's CEO Heath Zarin: 'One of the biggest challenges is around inland logistics, in particular trucking to get goods from the factory to the port.'
Barricades at entrances of tunnels, bridges and overpasses were removed and more flights are planned at the city's airports, according to local media.
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Based on the experiences of other Chinese cities like Wuhan in 2020 and Jilin earlier this year, it will take time for shops to reopen or factories to secure supplies and resume production.
Most of Shanghai's 25 million people can move freely, many factories and businesses remain closed or operating below capacity with the harbour - the world's biggest - remains backed up and truck traffic is at about a quarter of pre-Covid levels.
In Wuhan, it took until 2021 for the economy to recover from the damage sustained from the initial Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 and the more than two month lockdown that followed.
Xian took months to recover from the lockdown that ended in late January this year as retail sales fell 15 per cent year on year throughout Shaanxi province.
'We're talking about long supply chains that have been disrupted for more than eight weeks so it will take some time to stabilise,' said American Chamber of Commerce president Eric Zheng in Shanghai.
The shutdown has been a 'huge test' for global supply chains, he said, and while the government has been working on reducing transport bottlenecks, there are still restrictions on drivers crossing into shanghai or leaving the city to go to other provinces.
Said logistics investor EmergeVest's CEO Heath Zarin: 'One of the biggest challenges is around inland logistics, in particular trucking to get goods from the factory to the port.'
Barricades at entrances of tunnels, bridges and overpasses were removed and more flights are planned at the city's airports, according to local media.
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