isaac chang pro-democracy activists who is the vice chair of demo system thank you. thank you very much sometimes in a rare move the chinese premier refrained from announcing an economic growth target for this year at today's needing of the legislature the coronavirus pandemic led to many factory and business closures leaving many people without work the country is now racing to revive the economy and keep a lid on growing discontent. the pandemic has hammered china's domestic production and demand for key export markets such as the u.s. and europe have collapsed as a corona virus spreads worldwide tens of millions of chinese have lost their jobs. john joachim to beijing last october and found work immediately but he lost his job at a printing company during the outbreak. cheerful i'm sure you will honestly i'll be happy if i can just keep myself alive. before the epidemic i could work 2 jobs at the same time but now i can't find one i'm living on the brink of starvation. china's robust growth in recent years came to a halt in the 1st quarter when the economy contrac

and let's get the view now from hong kong i'm joined now by isaac chang a pro-democracy activists who is the vice chair of demo sisto welcome to the program thanks for joining us chinese authorities say that the move is to defend national security how do you see it definitely not only for security but to restrict freedom or democracy to some of hong kong and throughout the past year a lot of people coming out on the street and protest and fight against the communist dictatorship the regime and went the dictatorships all the communist party are afraid themselves will be a threatened by the people or even to call their view of hong kong to uphold then to come as you want to be active to strengthen their ruling in hong kong so that they right set up this law so i mean you've been demonstrating but ultimately the hong kong government is now saying that it will fully cooperate with beijing so what options does that leave now for your pro-democracy movement. firstly the law is actually restricting the international connections with hong kong and seoul reactions you are doing more internatio