How China Reopened Its Borders and Shocked the World
Everyone I want to thank you for your amazing support in 2022. This has been the best year of growth on social media and we have achieved quite a lot these past few years. Our network reach is now well over 1 million followers across all social media networks and I look forward to working hard in 2023 to continue to bring you more insights into China.
This will be my final article of 2022 and I wanted to look back and reveal some of the bigger storylines of the year and finish off the year with a final video recapping some of the biggest myths about China that were proven wrong this year.
The biggest one is that China would never shift away from its Zero Covid policy. This is something I have heard numerous China analysts predict and I’m glad that China’s government has proven them wrong with the move to reopen the economy. It’s the best long term decision for China as it will allow more Chinese citizens to once again leave the country (China tourists lead the world in international travel in 2019 with over 150 million trips abroad) you can imagine how many countries around the world are beyond excited to welcome Chinese tourists (and their RMB savings) back for tourism and shopping.
But what’s more important is that China is reopening it’s borders and will allow foreigners to travel back to China. This is excellent news and I have now made it a goal to go back to China for a visit in 2023 and produce a series of vlogs and writings to help share more insights and information into the Middle Kingdom.
Please watch this week’s episode and let me know what you think! See you all in 2023
Cyrus