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A | 香港8月10日电（奚天麒）由西安人才集团主办、香港高才通人才服务协会等机构协办的“港通未来·才聚三秦”陕西-香港人才交流推介会日前在香港故宫文化博物馆举行。 According to media reports, the newspaper Beijing Daily published a story on Monday afternoon quoting Cai Qi, the Communist Party of China’s secretary in Beijing and a former mayor of the city.,“In the next five years, Beijing will unremittingly grasp the normalization of epidemic prevention and control,” the story originally quoted Cai as saying, according to the UK Guardian.,Now, the article only says the city will “make unremitting efforts to normalize epidemic prevention and control” to “control quickly and resolutely block the transmission channels of the epidemic.”,It goes on to note the various efforts that must be improved, including a “normalized nucleic acid testing and key screening” process, regularizing cleaning and inspection of public spaces, and controlling entry and exit of the vast city of 21.5 million, which is deeply connected with the surrounding Hebei Province and nearby coastal metropolis of Tianjin.,China’s Economy Got $26 Billion Boost From Gov Buying 11 Billion Covid-19 Tests - Report13 June, 22:01 GMT,China adopted the “Zero Covid” policy in 2021, when the arrival of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, brought an increasingly stubborn new outbreak. However, the principles underlying it - that mass lockdowns, with logistical networks funneling food, supplies and medicine to residents under quarantine while medical workers test the entire population for infection - were forged in early 2020, when China fought off the world’s first outbreak of the virus.,Throughout 2021, the policy was extremely successful, limiting mainland China to just two COVID-19 deaths that year. By comparison, at least 415,000 Americans died of the virus in 2021.,However, it wasn’t until early 2022 that the Omicron variant, even more infectious than Delta and with a penchant for causing asymptomatic cases, really put China’s “Zero Covid” policy to the test. Between the beginning of April and the beginning of June, the Chinese government spent some $26 billion on COVID-19 tests as huge cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Xi’an were placed in lockdown for weeks at a time and their tens of millions of residents tested several times in an attempt to track down, isolate and treat all cases of the disease.,40% of Kids Aged 0-3 Suffer From Long COVID, Which Lasts at Least Two Months - Lancet Report23 June, 12:37 GMT,Despite its success at preventing mass death among its 1.4 billion people, the Chinese government has been extensively criticized by the West, which has variously accused them of lying about the extent of the outbreak, terrorizing its population with the lockdowns, and claiming that the policy in unsustainable. When World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested in May that China would be better off if it abandoned “Zero Covid,” Beijing fired back.,“The purpose [of Zero Covid] is solely to protect people’s life and health to the greatest extent possible and underpin sustained, sound and steady economic and social development,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at the time. “In China, we have the foundation, the conditions and the capability to achieve dynamic zero-COVID. We have every confidence in winning this hard battle and making greater contributions to the united global response.”,A study published in May by researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University and at Indiana University in the United States warned that if China’s “Zero Covid” policy were removed and the respiratory virus allowed to spread unimpeded across Chinese society - as has happened in most other countries - it would “generate a tsunami of Covid-19 cases” that would kill at least 1.5 million people.,Just over 5,200 people in China have died of COVID-19 since it appeared in late 2019, while about 6.3 million have died globally, including 1 million in the United States.。活动吸引了逾百名香港高校学者、青年科学家、在港优秀人才及学生代表到场参与，陕西重点用人单位携近300个高端岗位赴港揽才，涵盖人工智能、航空航天、生物医药、新材料、能源化工、半导体及金融服务等领域。

B | 特区政府劳工及福利局副局长何启明致辞表示，特区政府要更加积极做好香港人才高地的宣传，通过举办类似人才服务活动，得到各方人才需求方和内地更多省市的关注，以实际行动做好人才工作。香港高才通人才服务协会创会会长尚海龙表示，协会先后为新来港人才举办过超100场服务活动，今后将向香港本地毕业生逐步扩展服务，为他们提供内地就业机会，将香港人才所长融入国家所需，建设国际高端人才集聚高地。推介会现场，西安人才集团及随行陕西重点企业全面讲解当地产业布局、配套人才扶持政策，发布各类高端岗位需求，并设置专属洽谈时段，与到场香港人才开展精准对话。