Online Class Notes (Tibo)

Today is international working day / labour day.
Today we get rest. / today we don’t have to work
People have a total of 5 days. We just have a rest until May 4 and go to work on May 5.

We still need to work from home. / work remotely.

The government announced some list which big company can start producing things
-> the government announced a list of big companies which are allowed to resume production 

the SH manufacturing industry was stopped and it will influence other businesses.

For example SH is one of the biggest auto industry center of China so some famous brands like WW and Tesla are both located in SH and if they don’t produce other businesses will be influenced by the lockdown.

Meanwhile the SH economy will also lose a lot in lockdown / the shanghai economy suffers a lot from the lockdown

Someone said maybe more than 1B per day.-> some people talk about a loss of more than 1B per day

at first a message showed the world economy will decrease than several years ago.
I heard the world economy might slow down

In China the government still wants to prevent covid 19 -> The government has a 0 covid policy / the government wants covid to be eradicated

so many pressures comes from different levels / the government is under pressure from different sides
The government also will focus on how to change the loss of the economy in SH.
They will try to change a little this policy after international working day

If the situation keeps become well they will open the city unlimited on May 10 -> if the situation keeps improving / keeps getting better they will open the city unlimited on May 10

SH can require people to be in lockdown for several days but not a long time.
They also show us other reasons.

Maybe the reason  can explain why they need to put SH in lockdown.
/ they need to explain better to the people why they have to be in lockdown.

Ff we don’t let some cities in lockdown it will influence normal life in other cities.
some of the regions don’t have enough medicine.

They had to put a few people in lockdown to save the population.

Vocabulary

to resume (v) to restart from where you stopped
The factories will resume production soon

official (n) people in the government
The government officials need to talk about this

to eradicate (v) destroy completely / make disappear entirely
They want to eradicate Covid
we want to eradicate poverty

international working day / labour day (n)
Today we celebrate labour day

to lose (v)
The Shanghai economy is losing more than 1B per day

loss (n)
The economic loss is higher than 1B per day

slower growth (2020 6% growth / 2021 5% growth)

decrease of the economy (2020 6% growth / 2021 -2% growth)

Pronunciation

covid