Since China’s anti-COIVD-19 program imposed a strict lockdown, causing food scarcity for more than twenty days, Chinese people in Xi’an city have continued to seek foreign assistance. After the abrupt lockdown in Xi’an, 62-year-old decoration worker Liang Yanping from Hubei and his coworkers were locked down in an unfinished house without heating, a stove, or any furnishings, according to a Jan. 11 report in the state-run China Youth Daily. Only three boxes of instant noodles kept them alive for three weeks throughout the coldest part of the year. The workers were praised for being the “loveliest people” who did not cause any trouble for Xi’an and merely asked for a meal during the New Year festival, according to the story. Through another citizen’s inability to get to the hospital for a sudden bone dislocation, the report implicitly validated the difficulty of … Continue reading Xi’an Residents Fighting Starvation During Lockdown.