Correspondent in Asia
Zheng Hua (1) is an edgy young dad.
Regularly, the police come knocking on the door of this owner of a sports hall, in Chengdu, the great metropolis of Sichuan.
“
They threaten me and ask me not to file a complaint
,” explains the 27-year-old entrepreneur, who is struggling to make ends meet, caught between the implacable “zero Covid” decreed by President Xi Jinping, and the real estate crisis which weighs down the horizon of the second world economy.
“
I don't know how I'm going to raise my newborn baby.
We have to eat, while paying the current rent and the monthly payments for the apartment whose construction is blocked.
The family has no right to fall ill”
, summarizes Zheng, in this country where the welfare state is in its infancy.
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