China is opening up after 3 years — what does it mean for research?

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China’s strict ‘zero-COVID’ policy to quash the spread of the disease was among the longest and harshest worldwide. For almost three years, citizens endured mandatory testing, whole-city lockdowns and lengthy quarantines. The restrictions meant that researchers in China were largely confined to their campuses because regional and international travel was time-consuming, unpredictable and often expensive. Meanwhile, most researchers abroad were locked out of China.

“Many people are eager to re-engage with China and the scientists here,” says Thomas Stidham, a palaeontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing. Researchers in China have made big fossil discoveries over the past three years and palaeontologists are probably eager to get a first-hand look, says Stidham.

And in recent weeks, some countries, such as South Korea, the United States and Australia, have introduced testing requirements and other restrictions on travellers entering their borders from China because of the huge wave of COVID-19 infections there. China, in turn, has said it will not be issuing visas for travellers from some of those countries.

China is slush with foreign currency..mainly invested in US bonds. They don't know how to spend and what to do with it !

A flood of new fee paying students?

damned if you do, damned if you don't

I'm kinda concerned that China is 'opening up' in time for Chinese New Year. Isn't that what happened in 2020?

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