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一 |     Beijing, Oct 21 (UNI) The world has largely moved on from Covid -- except for China, where towns and cities are still shut down overnight.
And that's unlikely to change soon, judging by President Xi Jinping's opening speech at the Communist Party Congress on Sunday, BBC reported.
China -- and even the world -- was hoping for a hint of relaxation. But Xi, who is set to be handed a historic third term to lead the Party, said that the government would not "waver" in its commitment to record zero cases.
Driven by Xi's approval, China's lockdowns have been incessant, unpredictable and hellish by most accounts.
They have sparked food shortages, crippled healthcare access, hit the economy hard and even spurred rare signs of protest, the BBC reported.
But Beijing has clung to zero-Covid, which has come to define Xi's rule and the authoritarian bureaucracy at his disposal like almost no other policy.
The BBC found that since March, China has partially or fully locked down 152 prefecture-level cities, affecting a population of more than 280 million. But 114 of those have been locked down just since August, as the Party Congress approached.
Beijing is the only major city to have avoided a full lockdown so far. Residents half-jokingly observe that the capital has managed this by locking down the rest of the country when needed.
However on Thursday some housing estates and shopping centres in Beijing were being locked down after a steep rise in cases.
China's bureaucrats have certainly found inventive new ways to describe lockdowns. The measures had become so controversial and dreaded that confusing official-speak was one way to make them more palatable, the report said.
So they used phrases like "stasis management", "at-home stillness" or to be clearer, "stillness throughout the whole region" or "stop all unnecessary movement".
Then came "temporary societal control", which authorities said was not a "lockdown" but reduced movement that somehow would not affect the "normal order of production and life". And yet "the public was asked not to go out unless necessary".
"Enclosed management" was another new phrase invented in the southern province of Guangdong. It means that the village, district or residential compound is enclosed, with checkpoints at entrances and exits. People and vehicles are allowed to enter and leave with passes, the BBC reported.
People who do not live or work in the enclosed area are not allowed to enter. But, residents were told, it's not a lockdown.
When track-and-trace methods started to grate, eager officials came up with an alternative: "temporal and spatial overlapper". The sci-fi-inspired phrase refers to someone whose location, tracked by their phone, has overlapped in time and space with someone else who is Covid-positive.
Rather than tell people not to visit their hometowns during this year's Spring Festival, the governor in Dancheng County in central Henan province warned them that "those who come home with malicious intent will first be quarantined, then be detained", the report said.
Experts also say China's bureaucracy is far more centralised under Xi - it's a reversal of the decentralisation that began after China introduced economic reforms. What that means now is that bureaucrats enforce Xi's signature policies with zeal.
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二 |     当地时间1月14日，美国洛杉矶县方面表示，洛杉矶山火已造成至少25人死亡。此外，有超过1.2万栋建筑被毁，超过155.4平方公里的土地被烧毁。央视记者在山火灾区看到，一街之隔，却是两番景象。视频加载中...央视记者 刘骁骞：在洛杉矶山火重灾区帕利塞德，我发现一个很奇怪的现象，和废墟仅仅一路之隔的地方，这些建筑却保存非常完好，似乎完全没有受到山火的影响。难道说大火在蔓延的时候特意绕过了这些地方吗？其实这些高档的商铺是“帕利塞德村购物中心”。根据美国主流媒体的披露，当地时间7日晚、8日凌晨山火蔓延后，购物中心的地产拥有者紧急地从相邻的亚利桑那州调来了一支私人救火队。几天前，洛杉矶消防部门还否认过私人救火队的作业，但这个说法很快不攻自破，而且雇佣私人消防服务的情况并不局限于购物中心这一家。

三 | 这些水车都是私人租赁的，每一辆都装有12吨左右的水。它们就这样停在街边，随时待命。在美国，正常情况下，雇佣私人消防服务一般要通过消防部门或者保险公司，很少会直接和顾客对接。服务收费也很昂贵，能达到每小时2000美元。这个事件曝光后，很多洛杉矶居民，特别是那些在火灾中失去家园的受害者非常愤怒，又很无奈，还有什么比“有钱能让山火‘绕道’”更能体现社会的不公呢？同时，他们更想知道，如果私人消防队能阻止山火，为什么城市的消防队却做不到呢？还有更多疑问浮出水面，消防部门反馈，他们在救火时发现百分之二十的消火栓都没有水，或者水压太低。这个情况和当时私人消防队的作业有没有关系？同时，这些私家救火车的出现是否阻碍了民众的撤离和官方消防队的及时进入？这些恐怕都是下一个阶段加州政府必须调查的问题。（央视记者 刘骁骞）©2025中央广播电视总台版权所有。未经许可，请勿转载使用。责任编辑：潘晨。

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