China News Service, Zhengzhou, November 25th, title: Zhengzhou is fully unblocked: a city, busy and busy, ready to go
Kan Li
"From 0:00 on November 24, 2021, the entire area of Jiayu Town, Xingyang City will be lifted." Since then, Zhengzhou City's closed and controlled districts have been completely lifted.
An official announcement from Zhengzhou gave Tang Qiaozhen, who runs three music bars in Zhengzhou, a sigh of relief.
His bar is expected to resume business, "I really see the hope of life!"
Since the beginning of this month, Zhengzhou City has found 3 positive cases in routine nucleic acid tests. Scenic spots, theaters, Internet cafes, KTVs, and closed entertainment venues in the city have been closed for more than 20 days.
For Tang Qiaozhen, these 20-odd days are all suffering.
Since the "July 20" heavy rain disaster in Zhengzhou, Tang Qiaozhen's store has been in operation for more than a month, and various losses including rent and other losses have exceeded 300,000 yuan.
Fortunately, the bar he has run for decades is well-known in Zhengzhou, and he has accumulated some accumulation, "otherwise, it will not last long."
After rounds of shocks, Tang Qiaozhen launched a takeaway business in three stores at the same time to save himself.
But this is a drop in the bucket for various expenditure pressures.
At 6 pm on the 24th, Tang Qiaozhen rushed to the storefront on Nongke Road in Zhengzhou City. The heat in front of the door was like recent weather, and it was a bit deserted.
"Business is not easy now, and there is no better way. I can only wait to resume business and slowly recover!" Tang Qiaozhen told reporters that he and several employees came to clean up the store today and make final preparations before opening. It's open, hope comes."
Under the night, the prosperous Zhengzhou Nongke Road still has neon signs, but its popularity has faded.
This requires tens of thousands of "Tang Qiaozhen" to boost confidence and rekindle the fireworks in Zhengzhou.
Compared with Tang Qiaozhen, Mr. Su, who has been running Internet cafes in Zhengzhou for many years, has a lot more difficult steps.
Many years ago, Mr. Su used his savings and part of the loan to invest in this Internet cafe in a prosperous commercial street in the east district of Zhengzhou. "It was still operating at that time."
The intermittent closure and opening of business affected Mr. Su's capital chain, and the loan was overdue.
Coupled with the recent illness of Mr. Su’s child in the hospital, he is unable to support the reopening of the Internet cafe. “The transfer of the Internet cafe has been negotiated, and the formalities will be completed when it resumes operations in the past few days.”
Mr. Su plans to repay the loan with the cost of the transfer from the Internet cafe, so that he can take care of the child's illness with peace of mind before making further plans.
"It will take a period of time to recover after the complete unblocking. I have to take advantage of this period of time to plan for a long time and see what more business I can do."
Jiayu Town, Xingyang City is the area with the longest control period in this round of new crown pneumonia.
Mr. Chu, a villager in Jiayu Township, is an excavator driver. He had negotiated a salary of 9,000 yuan/month before the epidemic and drove the excavator on the construction site. “Because of the epidemic, I was isolated at home and there was no way.”
After unblocking at 0:00 on the 24th, he rushed back to his home in Xingyang City to see his family he hadn't seen for decades.
On the morning of the 25th, he rushed to work on the construction site. "It has been difficult for the past two years. The most important thing is to make money after unblocking it. As long as you work hard, you can survive no matter how difficult it is."
Mr. Li, who is also in Jiayu Town, works in the joint construction of ceramic tiles. He was quarantined due to the epidemic and lost four deals.
Mr. Li explained the reasons to the customers one by one, but time waits for no one, "I can only watch the list lost."
Early in the morning after unblocking the seal, Mr. Li went to Dengfeng first to visit his mother-in-law who was hospitalized due to illness.
On the morning of the 25th, he rushed from Dengfeng to a construction site in the urban area of Zhengzhou and stepped up construction.
After experiencing rounds of shocks and reluctant to stop, it was able to fully unblock it.
According to Song Xiangqing, vice president of the China Business Economics Association, “it is a blessing for merchants and citizens.” However, due to the weather and the rise of online shopping, the streets are still somewhat deserted.
Song Xiangqing said that the deserted streets actually reflect the low consumption sentiment of Zhengzhou citizens under multiple shocks.
To boost people's consumer confidence, stimulate the enthusiasm of merchants for service, and reproduce the former glory of the streets and lanes, more efforts are needed.
He suggested that first of all, we must strictly implement the epidemic prevention requirements to prevent the city from tossing and the citizens from being depressed; second, businesses should carry out various forms of community business experience, etc. to guide citizens out of the family; third, the government should appropriately issue limited-period traction consumption Coupons to guide citizens to consume.
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