Covid-19 lockdowns upset the rice bowls of China's commuter workers

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BEIJING - When the town of Yanjiao near Beijing was suddenly plunged into a Covid-19 lockdown last month, taxi driver Dong Tiejun was forced to drive hundreds of kilometres to avoid roadblocks and ge

t a passenger to Tianjin, a metropolis on the northeast coast.

Border towns such as Yanjiao have grown at a dizzying rate over the past decade as office workers in Beijing looked for affordable housing nearby, with hundreds of thousands crossing the Hebei-Beijing border on a daily basis before Covid-19. Several Yanjiao commuters told Reuters that another burdensome measure was the"commuter pass" that anyone entering Beijing must now obtain and continuously update.

While major centres like Beijing and Shanghai have maintained high bars for imposing stringent Covid-19 restrictions on residents, dormitory towns in Hebei face a much stricter and mercurial situation.

 

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