During a visit to Wuhan last month, President Xi Jinping acknowledged that Covid-19 lockdowns were hurting the Chinese economy, but added that it was better to “temporarily affect a little economic development rather than risk people’s health and safety”.
On Friday, the National Bureau of Statistics will quantify the “little” price Xi insists is worth paying in pursuit of his “zero-Covid” approach when it publishes its estimate for second-quarter economic growth. Here are five things to look for in Friday’s release.
How much bigger was the impact of regional lockdowns in the second quarter?
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