Part Four: My Life in Post-COVID China
Lee Siu Hin
Shanghai, China
January 7, 2021
Happy New Year 2021 from Shanghai, China! Middle of my China medical solidarity fact-finding trip.
I return to China at late August when the country was fully recovered from the pandemic, life back to normal at post-COVID era; at the same time U.S. second COVID waves ravaging across the country. Since September the number of people infected in U.S. every single day is more then entire year on China!
I supposed to stay in China for a short 2-months trip for fact-finding exploration, but the out-of-control pandemic surge across U.S. (the so-called 3rd waves) since November, California becomes the new epic center of the disaster, and it made me hesitate for coming back before the holidays.
(Beijing Railroad Station)
Extra-long stay helped me achieved an excellent opportunity to understand how China successfully fight the virus in first-hand eye-witness record, with how people feels their country and the U.S.
I spend good amounts of time to visit museums, attend meetings, meet many people, read many books and newspapers, in order to produce vlongs and blogs about my stories in China..
I thought due to the COVID restrictions, it might be very few Chinese meetings/conventions like the rest of the World; but with my surprise, beginning of August, Chinese robust economy recovery with high public confidence, the large-scale business conventions and events are happening every day across China.
China has clearly back to normal after successfully contain the COVID-19 within 3 months at early April, 2020; restaurants and business has opened the door again with full customers, domestic Chinese tourists are travel across the country; major events such as conventions and conferences are opening daily.
I witnessed the major economic achievement across the country; with people’s positive feeling that China is going to the right direction (above: the exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Shanghai Pudong district development—30 years ago it was still a sleepy farmland, and now become the third largest financial center in the World).
I have medical-IT background, so spend most of my time meeting with Chinese medical experts, attend medical convention, and speak at medical MeetUp events (below), to build China-U.S. bi-national medical solidarity to fight against COVID-19.
Everywhere talk about “China’s Speed”, the ultra-speed to build and run its world biggest high-speed network, its call the Chinese political system advantages of “concentrating everyone efforts on focus to achieve a big thing.”
It’s the collective interest--the new Chinese genreation, motivate everyone successfully fight the COVID within short time, and achieve economic miracle within short time.
Here’s some of my photos and videos from my life in Shanghai between Spetember—December, 2020.
Beijing, China 9/11/2020
After COVID the normal life in Beijing (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/Beijing091120.mp4
Cultural Shanghai (9/16-22, 2020)
Book stores, cafe at the Shanghai city center (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/CulturalShanghai0916-2220.mp4
Art Museums, Art Centers in Shanghai (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ArtShanghai081120.mp4
Romantic Shanghai (October-December 2020)
After COVID the normal life in Shanghai (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/Shanghai103020.mp4
Shanghai Outdoor Music Festival
Outdoor music festival at Shanghai, China (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiOutdoorMusicFestival.mp4
Shanghai Historical Communist Revolutionary Sites
As the center of Chinese revolutions, Shanghai has many former historical sites, many now renovated to become educational museums (VIDEO)
2020 China National Day Light Shows at Shanghai Bund
October 1st is China's National Day, hundreds of thousands of people visit Shanghais Bund to see the evening celebrate light show (VIDEO)
Community Recycle Van in Shanghai Streets
VIDEO
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiRecycleVan.mp4
Happy Cats in Shanghai
At mid-November, 2020 Happy cats at Shanghai, China (VIDEO)
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6368
Exhibition to Honor Shanghai Medical Staffs to Wuhan for COVID-19 Fighting at Early 2020
Many similar exhibitions to honor COVID-19 medical fighters across the country (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiAnti-COVIDExihibtion.mp4
This small exhibition at Shanghai Jiaotong University, focus on Shanghai-area Communist Party-member medical educators who went to Wuhan to fight COVID-19 early 2020.
Huawei Flagship Store in Shanghai, China
VIDEO
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/HuaweiShanghaiFlagshipStore091920.mp4
Shanghai Fashion Week
One of biggest fashion event this year in post-COVID world at October, 2020 (VIDEOS)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiFashionWeek.mp4
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShowroomShanghai.mp4
Shanghai slowly become one of the fashion design capital of the world, people love to dress up had made the city one of the most stylish in the World. Many international fashion designers now station in China. This year’s topic: green and sustainable design.
Shanghai SDG Impact Summit （10/31, 2020)
Many global socially responsable business (CSR) organizations had estibalished their foothold in China, they work with Chinese private CSR to run conference and workshops to promote their ideas at October, 2020 (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/SDGImpactSummit.mp4
Approx 200 people attended, the summit discuss and showcase green tech and sustainable technologies. China will soon become the major global hub for green tech innovation.
Shanghai Healthcare Drink Event
There're many multinational corporations organize their own business meetup events in China, like this one sponsored by several healthcare investment firms and KMPG, speakers to discuss what'll be the industry forecast at 2021 in China (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiHealthCAreDrink.mp4
Shanghai Solidarity Trade Fair to Support Buying Poor Areas Produces (10/16-20, 2020)
Part of China's poverty alleviation campaign, wealthy regions will assign specific poor regions to support, such as: education, employments, capital investment and basic inflector. In addition, organize trade fair to promote their products at the big city (VIDEO)
It's a unique Chinese government poverty alleviation program to assign wealth regions/cites to support disadvantage regions; from sending teachers/engineers/doctors, help to build schools/hospitals/roads, to commit to purchase their products.
Shanghai has assigned to support their poor regions on Yunan, Xingjian, Qinghai and Guizhou providences.
The program also innovatively using e-commerce for poverty alleviation. This fair aim to help thier farm products connect to e-commerce business to sell thru on major e-commerce platform such as Taobao, Wechat and very popular PingDuoDuo cloud e-commerce site to sell discounted poor area products with government financial supports. Chinese government using e-commerce site to help the poor region with financial aides to help them sell their local products, it works very well.
I frequently using PingDuoDuo to order produces, such as: apples, it’s cheaper (free shipping) and support Chinese poor regions to improve their lives.
Art Plus Shanghai International Art Fair (10/22-25, 2020)
Commercial art market and exhibitions were quickly recovered in post-COVID China. This was one of the dozen big Chinese art fairs delayed early 2020 due to COVID lockdown, and restart again at the second-half of the year (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ArtPlusShanghai1020-2220.mp4
Shanghai China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) 10/19-22, 2020
One of the biggest international medical equipment conference at post-COVID world-wide (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/CMEF.mp4
More then 4200 medical equipment companies from across China and the World, over 60 meetings and tens of thousands people attend, this year fair more COVID related products/PPE atthe fair, busy business a sign of economic rebound in China
11/5-10 2020 China International Import Expo (CIIE) Shanghai, China
The annual China International Import Expo (CIIE) held at Shanghai, China between Nov 5-10, 2000; despite the COVID-19 more then 400 thousands people had attended, made it one of the biggest trade fair held in 2020 around the World. Web: https://www.ciie.org/zbh/en/
(VIDEO)
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6362
11/5-10 2020 China International Import Expo (CIIE) Shanghai, China --Intelligent Industry and Information Technology Area
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/CIIE2020-IntelligentInd&InfoTech.mp4
The most important trade show at post-COVD China, to show how impressive the Chinese economic had recovered, and the country’s continue commitment for economic openness to the every country while the World had dipped into the abyss of COVID crisis and economic crash.
Shanghai Start-Up Week
Nov 13-18, 2020 Shanghai Start-Up Week, it's an government-sponsored event to offer information to college students who're looking to start their high-tech or on-line businesS
VIDEO
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6369
Live Stream Online Sales Booming in China
Live stream on-line sales had become very important part of the Chinese economy. Such as; during China International Import Expo (CIIE) held at Shanghai, China between Nov 5-10, 2000; many business setup their live stream booth to promote and sell their products (VIDEO)
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6367
Shanghai ICIE Art Fair
11/19-22, 2020 The third Yangtze River Delta International Cultural Industries Expo (ICIE) kicked off at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai).
More than 1,000 museums, institutions and corporations are participating in the 54,000-square-meter exhibition that is showcasing a diverse range of products from interactive gaming and viewing experiences that are powered by virtual and augmented reality to traditional handicrafts that are intangible cultural heritages, including bamboo weaving, silk embroidery and print-making.
VIDEO
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6370
Impact Investing Conference Hangzhou (IIC Hangzhou)
11/28 2020 Impact Investing Conference Hangzhou (IIC Hangzhou), a Chinese private capitalist socially-responsible conference to support the so-called impact investment idea to change the world better (VIDEO)
http://www.activistvideo.org/views.asp?id=6371
Deep Autumn Hangzhou, China: Impact Investing Conference Hangzhou 2020. To showcase eastern China Zhejiang area’s private social enterprises and their corporate socially responsible works “Investing in Kindness, Make It a Better World.”
Shanghai "Bear Claw" Coffee
A popular coffeehouse run by deaf peoples, a model of self-help business (VIDEO)
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos/ShanghaiDeafPeopleRunCoffeehosue.mp4
”Hinichijou” coffee is located in Yongkang Road, Shanghai. There is no store front, only a takeout hole. The coffee shop is operated by deaf people. They take the ordered coffee and take it to the guests from the small takeout hope wearing bear claw glove . It looks lovely and shows love. People like to call it "bear claw" coffee. It has become Shanghai beautiful positive stories. Every day, many people come from everyone to buy their lovely coffee at the winter cold sidewalk.
And finally, i rerceived mybook "Capitalism on a Ventilator" mailed from U.S...
We spent six months last year to complete the book, an anthology comparing the effective Chinese response to COVID-19 with the disastrous response in the U.S. It pushes back against the racist anti-China campaign in U.S. media.
The book is available to purchase online! Please support our work by buying a copy!https://world-view-forum.myshopify.com/products/capitalism-on-a-ventilator
* Lee Siu Hin, long-time Chinese-American low-pay immigrant workers activists, currently working on community health project; is the national coordinator of National Immigrant Solidarity Network http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org
Action LA Network http://www.ActionLA.org and China-US Bi-National Activist Solidarity Network http://www.chinadelegation.org Lee’s book “Capitalism on a Ventilator -- Impact of COVID-19 in China vs. U.S.” will be co-publish with International Action Center at August, 2020. For more information email: activistweb@gmail.com twitter @siuhin
Journey to My Home 2020: Lee Siu Hin-My International COVID-19 Medical Fact-Finding Solidarity Trip
Part One: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/index.html
Part Two: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/PartTwo.html
Part Three: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/PartThree.html
Article: Science and Stake Behind the COVID Vaccine Development http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Science-and-Stake-Behind-the-COVID-Vaccine-Development.html
Photos:
Part One: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Photos.html
Part Two: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Photos-2.html
Part Three: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Photos-3.html
Part Four: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Photos-4.html
Part Five: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Photos-5.html
Videos: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/China/2020/Videos.html
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