innocent transparency fairies can provide comfort you don't like reality create another person. assume about knowledge and belief trust and deception. democracy of the gullible starts joyce 1st on d w. china is still dealing with the effects of corona virus. the pandemic has changed everyone's lives. there is now a new normal. it includes frequent digital tests for the virus. first to scan this barcode. that automatically opens a health app out there and when i take a look at the screen. 100 i give them the app says no no abnormal

conditions no no abnormal conditions so i get the green light going to get if this were red i'd have to be quarantined for 14 days you have to until your data to including the passport information and date of birth country of origin of what thought the opponent. and the app can find out where i've been and where. but neither the chinese authorities nor the manufacturer will tell us how it works yes it's like a black box. lots of places have bieber scanners out front. even a slight increase in body temperature can set them off. there

aren't a lot of tourists here at the great wall of china even though lockdown restrictions have eased a little people are cautious and well monitored at this station visitors use their smartphones to scan a barcode this is the 1st time in a long time that has left her hometown she's here with her mother and her son. you type in your name phone number and home address and then the app decides whether you can come in. this is just one of many new health apps now used in china. a quick check of their body temperature and they're off to the summit. like many in china this family has been living with lockdown restrictions. they haven't left their home for months.

today they're taking a day trip. this section of the great wall is about 70 kilometers north of beijing . it's normally crowded with tourists. but the family almost have the place all to themselves so they don't need to wear face masks and they can enjoy a bit of the great outdoors. so that's out us. we spend more time at home now so i have to come up with new ways to keep my son busy we play together a lot so what don't. joke is 8 years old. he hasn't gone to school for several months so he studies at home. my mom has changed a lot she's always at home and she's really stressed out she gets upset 57800 times more than she used to. the pandemic has made everyone more

cautious we're on our way to interview a worker and even he asked us to use our health that. this is who you know shoot. after our apps show up green he satisfied that we don't pose a health risk. to the. who tells us that for the 1st time in 20 years his working life is falling apart but i know. that there he used to hire himself out as a day laborer usually at construction sites. but he says those jobs are hard to find these days and then there was. the lockdown restrictions that made it more difficult you lost specially the social distancing requirements. actually but i think that we've come through the worst months of it now. who takes us to the place where he and others wait for employers to come by and

offer them work. it's an unofficial labor market but when we arrive a lot of the workers get up and leave. the men are looking for work in factories or on construction sites the lot of people here say there are fewer jobs 2. and wages are lower than before the pandemic pardon me. who you assure you is cautious and his comments. he doesn't want to bad mouth the chinese government in front of foreign journalists even to hear from them there are still some problems but once they end the restrictions everything will go back to normal. but the pandemic has also created china's worst economic crisis in decades. at private employment agencies like this one in beijing the jobs that are offered pay a lot less than they did just a few months ago. the equivalent of 20 euros

a day. they used to pay $30.00. dollars another unofficial job market just a few 100 meters away day workers wait here for employers to come off the more. there are about 300000000 migrant workers in china they helped to fuel the country's remarkable economic growth but now many of them are worried about how to make ends meet there are a lot fewer jobs now that used to be all kinds of work and i've been waiting here for days my savings will be gone soon. well you know you by the way your last year there were jobs that paid 200 you want today you know today the average is on 100. 100 you one works out to about 13 euros a day. i we now leave the outlying districts of beijing and return to the heart of the city i 1st glance life here

looks pretty much like it did before the pandemic i but here's something new checkpoints set up by the communist party's neighborhood committees. these officials decide who can enter the area i am devoured by there are checkpoints on just about every side street to take people's temperature on were not a few months ago only people who lived here were allowed in but now you just share your health code data and that's it. still the restrictions change constantly depending on the level of new infections more lock down restrictions could be imposed at any time and this makes it tough for people to move freely around the city but by enough that somebody. there are long lines outside some restaurants. these people don't pay much attention to social distancing. most of my life is back

to normal now because i can go to a restaurant and. the thing that effect me a lot is i can't go back to work so i can't get my salary. much has changed because of coronavirus many people have lost their jobs and have been forced to live on their savings. the fact sisters noodle restaurant has come up with creative ideas to deal with the situation for example the guests are separated by plexiglass panels at their table. sure what the other 2. and she has also distributed these advertisement around the neighborhood. to her business is doing well despite the effects of the pandemic i would go soon pat i think it's a matter of mentality i try to think positively after all people always have to eat

. these pitches from late january to late march guests were not allowed inside the restaurant so within 2 weeks due had set up to take counsel since most of her employees had to stay home at that time do took everything into her own hands of the labor she's even taken extra measures to retain the trust of her customers men. this take out receipt shows the body temperature of the cook and the employee who packed the meal. we also list the temperature of the person who delivers it how much. jaring the lockdown the takeout service accounted for at least one 3rd of the restaurants turnover do didn't have to lay off any of her workers. take out service is still available but now customers are returning to their

restaurants in droves and turnover is way up due has found ways to work through this crisis i. i. i feel good about our situation we do a lot of takeout business we pack up new orders all day long i think we have just enough people to do all the work but i may hire one or 2 more. finals i tell you not going to the government is helping out by paying the employees share of social security contributions for the workers for one year that's an important subsidy for this business. meanwhile back at the great wall of china. and her mother and son are enjoying their visit but because of the lockdown restrictions there are no huge crowds like back home in beijing there's plenty of room to walk around and the risk of infection here is low.

but chen and her mother are taking no risks when it comes to the health of dzhokhar . they still don't allow him to meet with his friends that's another complication created by the pandemic. they're about to have a meal at this restaurant. but before they're allowed in they have to provide their names and phone numbers and they have to have their temperature taken. in china people often share dishes of food but today the family have chosen to do that only among themselves and only here in this private world. i'll eat in a restaurant out here in the countryside but not in the city now that the risk of infection is low or we can take occasional day trips but most of the time we stay

at home. grandma jang says people have a duty to protect themselves and others. thought we have to be careful of void currents and follow the guidelines if everyone does that china will prosper and things will get better and better well we. chan and her family believe that the government's policies will help to lead the country out of this crisis. she is a human rights lawyer who takes a critical view of the government's coronavirus policies. they also routines have she under surveillance 24 hours a day. we didn't know until the last minute whether we'd be allowed to interview him. when launch numbers of people recently took to the internet to demand freedom of speech she signed

a petition that called for improvements in civil rights he says the police have ordered him to keep quiet. they say that if i don't cooperate with you delete my internet posts and stop speaking out it will have negative consequences for my family my children and me that's out. there where you. know she 1st heard about a new unidentified virus last december he became concerned after 8 doctors in holland who were trying to alert the public to the new threat were arrested in early january and they were accused of spreading false reports about the virus. when things like that happen we usually believe exactly the opposite of what the government is saying. there's a saying on the internet that what the state media defines as rumors or more likely

predictions. are foreign colleagues probably won't understand that unless they grew up in east germany. we didn't have the flu. time choosing she fears that the pandemic will allow the government to increase its control of a society he's concerned about the digital data that scented into the system whenever he uses a house sound. and he believes that that app based surveillance will continue real now after the threat of virus infection has passed. we are. going to draw more community one of the horse. in the past chinese citizens had to provide their personal data when they bought a train or bus ticket for a hotel room. they were also checked by facial recognition technology. now i have to go through that process not just when i travel but also here at home

. number you for our government now has complete coverage of the population with facial recognition personal data confirmation and passport registration triumphal that. we're on our way to beijing international airport there are strict security controls here even though the facility is mostly empty. overseas flights are full and off sharply because of the pandemic. we're here to pick up a journalist for an interview we've agreed not to use his real name so we'll call him chung a high he spent the 1st 76 days of the lockdown in will han it's been 4 months since he was invading. the return trip was complicated so each time he boards a plane or other form of transport he has to register into provide a passport number the health then determines whether the data is correct. or

i try to buy plane ticket at the apps and that under current regulations i was not allowed to somewhere the values that we have would always show up so i tried to buy a train ticket but that didn't work either. he uses something like it's your wall then chelm got help from a communist party neighborhood committee which has a say in such matters. a whole though after 2 days on the 16th i was allowed to buy a plane ticket with whatever books of what we have for. during his time in we han chung wrote about individual people he'd been affected by the pandemic. you know with all those forces you work. in one article i talked about a doctor who treated coronavirus patients and then became infected herself to use the volatile way i mean she was not treated quickly was not given

a hospital band and later died at the age of about 30. or later a lot of readers criticised me for writing such a tragic story with. nationalism is on the rise in china right now and negative reports about society a discouraged chung's article is no longer available on the internet. if you click on it you get an error message that says i violated the guidelines but it doesn't give specifics it's possible that some readers posted negative comments or complaints of the old current is in the. junk still has no idea what he did wrong. but your her. maybe i did break someone here with us or the person you would certainly not clear to me which one was without without a way of helping her and i don't know why the article was censored the way some

without us are that's what. the authorities are also cracking down on other journalists and we want these pictures of lee's a while were taken just before he disappeared critical reporting on the pandemic can have serious consequences used to work as a news anchor for chinese television now she's out there are lots of. back in france. but he quit his job moved on and started filing freelance investigative reports. he even applied for a job on the night shift at a funeral home so he could get an idea of how many people were actually dying and will haunt. you. lee was doing a live webcast at his apartment when plainclothes police turned up and arrested him he wasn't seen again for 2 months. in april he appeared in

a video and claimed that he'd been in quarantine but many who have seen this clip i doubt that he was speaking freely with. an attorney named. also filed independent reports for mohan his coverage was read by millions chen has not been seen since february 7th. his mother has turned to social media to try to find out what happened to him. was a. journalist beena filmed crowded hospitals and on. a few days after he did a video interview with german broadcaster a r d he was placed under house arrest. has not been seen in public since february 9th . the government eased the lockdown measures in ruhani in early april before that life

was difficult the city was sealed off and many residential streets were blocked for weeks people were not allowed to step outside shopping for essential zz was organized by the neighborhood committees. this is the 1st time in 4 months that journalist chong bey high has been in his apartment in beijing he tells us that his experiences with the pandemic in will han affected him deeply. for sure there are so many people especially those in families was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder use others feel terribly guilty because they fear that they brought the virus into the family so the words are some even feel responsible for the death of a family member to see it all for true this in the. hospital was chunks accounts of doctors and nurses tell a grim story at the start of the outbreak hospitals were poorly equipped and

understaffed how do you or you go anyways well you know one doctor described how he managed to save one patient but not another because he couldn't treat him quickly or through the years the situation was unprecedented finance us with. the feeling the affects of the pandemic will likely be felt for years. back at the great wall grammar jang takes a photo of dzhokhar a souvenir of their lockdown day trip to this world famous structure. later jane told us that she is pleased with the government's response to the pandemic. she's of course you know i think that other countries can learn something from the way we've handled this we chinese know how to take preventative measures. protect ourselves and everyone follows the government's rules and regulations.

we don't. many others agree they trust in the guidance of the communist party it's the leadership who should make important decisions not the people. that's how china works our leaders come up with ideas and the people should obey them and not complain too much it's for the good of society if we all work together we can solve problems faster but if people have a lot of different opinions things can get out of control yeah if we have so it would have us so that's the difference between socialism and capitalism i think you should be more like china. now there was a out for you foreigners always want freedom freedom can kill you. there is freedom for you you get sick keep walking around in public and in fact everyone else. may be these people are just giving us the official government line in

any case china's leaders are trying to portray their country as politically and culturally superior and responsible world power. chinese state t.v. often shows pictures of medical aid shipments bound to various foreign countries it's good publicity. this is who and an economics professor at ching law university and a government advisor he says china is a world power that loves peace. civil fashion. china doesn't want to new cold war we want peaceful cooperation and development the benefits both sides. 'd 'd but he says the u.s. does not want to be upstaged by another wild power. foreign china's growing and washington simply can't deal with that. that's why the u.s.

is always challenging us here. and the pandemic has actually increased china's self-confidence. and. now we're driving to the outskirts of beijing to a resort that was quite popular before the pandemic. a checkpoint has been set up on this access road only local residents are allowed to enter the area. you home young runs a small restaurant here. it was allowed to reopen in april but the customers have to sit outside. the e.u. make sure that there are plenty of disinfectants on hand to keep people safe. customers have to go through the usual procedures. first they enter a barcode check the health that have their temperature taken and give their home

phone number and address. the you is happy to be back in business so far this year she's lost 50 percent of her turnover. well now that the virus comes back it'll ruin us restaurant owners are having a really tough time now. this temple reopened recently. but foreigners are not allowed to visit as a health precaution. guests at this in have to show health data at their temperature taken and provide a passport photo. but rather to assume it took almost 10 minutes to download the right app and put all the data but now we're going to go we're going about. we start talking with the manager but then her husband intervenes. oh we're going to he says foreign journalists can't be trusted

so she shouldn't talk to us and the interview is over. but you know. we visit a small hotel nearby the owner has been waiting for 3 months for permission to reopen. but then a colleague warns him against talking to foreigners. not. the local communist party leader has put out a phone message it says that anyone who talks to foreign reporters could face serious consequences. since the outbreak of the pandemic fewer people want to talk to us they seem to be worried about saying the wrong thing and they don't want to get into trouble. we return to be joining to visit chen and her family following their trip to the great wall. we're pleased they've invited us into their home since many chinese

believe that foreigners could help to spread the virus. these people are part of china's prosperous middle class chen has been working from home for months. her husband is a construction manager at a state owned company it's a secure job but he's often on the road for weeks at a time when he returns he helps to home school his son. i can't meet with his friends yet but he now has a smartwatch so he can stay in contact. the family is doing well but they still long for the pre-planned make days when life was much simpler. and chen says that home schooling her son is a real challenge so. when the kids were in school they had one teacher for each subject but now i have to cover all of them 3 you're still

we've overcome these difficulties together. we've weathered this storm and it's been good for both of us. meanwhile grandma jang continues to worry about her family's future. so sure we can't let our guard down i don't have to stay vigilant be able to feel safe again only when the virus disappears from china and the rest of the world. and you can put this look of this family has been living in crisis mode for 5 months now like millions of others but here at home they have peace of mind and kind of scape the new normal conditions outside the restrictions of the digital controls and fears of a new wave of infection. from

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