COVID-19 wreaked havoc all over the world, besides taking a huge toll of precious lives, the global pandemic shattered economies, put development projects on a hold and brought numerous countries to the threshold of bankruptcy. China suffered like the rest of the world but it managed to control the death toll with a stringent lockdown protocol and wide distribution of covid prevention vaccines to combat the spread of coronavirus. Spikes occurred owing to the mutation of the virus and discovery of new strains of the deadly disease. These too were overcome and the lockdown procedures were relaxed in December 2022. The road to China’s economic recovery however, has been slow but effective damage control procedures, prudent monetary policies and far reaching fiscal measures checked the downfall.

The West, like the rest of humanity, suffered a major impact of the pandemic, losing valuable lives and facing an economic meltdown. Nevertheless, instead of focusing on adopting measures to save lives of its populace and reviving its economy, the Occident was more concerned with critically observing China, not for learning lessons from its cautious steps to stem the rot but for engaging in a propaganda campaign to divert attention away from its own economic woes and chastising the Chinese government.

Mercifully, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported data and figures which covered the period of decline as well as the recovery. Although China’s detractors continue to portray a dismal picture of the state of China’s economy as well as the impact of COVID-19 on China’s population, data from NBS present a........

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