Beauty, pleasure products top Shanghai’s post-lockdown ‘revenge spending’

Shanghai’s lockdown may be over, but China is sticking to its zero-Covid elimination strategy, fuelling worry in the city of 25-million that it could all happen again.

05 June 2022 - 00:00 By Reuters

Mother-of-two Yang Zengdong was ready to take her family on a long-awaited outing to mark Shanghai’s grand reopening from lockdown this week...

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