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A |     Beijing, Oct 21 (UNI) The world has largely moved on from Covid -- except for China, where towns and cities are still shut down overnight.
And that's unlikely to change soon, judging by President Xi Jinping's opening speech at the Communist Party Congress on Sunday, BBC reported.
China -- and even the world -- was hoping for a hint of relaxation. But Xi, who is set to be handed a historic third term to lead the Party, said that the government would not "waver" in its commitment to record zero cases.
Driven by Xi's approval, China's lockdowns have been incessant, unpredictable and hellish by most accounts.
They have sparked food shortages, crippled healthcare access, hit the economy hard and even spurred rare signs of protest, the BBC reported.
But Beijing has clung to zero-Covid, which has come to define Xi's rule and the authoritarian bureaucracy at his disposal like almost no other policy.
The BBC found that since March, China has partially or fully locked down 152 prefecture-level cities, affecting a population of more than 280 million. But 114 of those have been locked down just since August, as the Party Congress approached.
Beijing is the only major city to have avoided a full lockdown so far. Residents half-jokingly observe that the capital has managed this by locking down the rest of the country when needed.
However on Thursday some housing estates and shopping centres in Beijing were being locked down after a steep rise in cases.
China's bureaucrats have certainly found inventive new ways to describe lockdowns. The measures had become so controversial and dreaded that confusing official-speak was one way to make them more palatable, the report said.
So they used phrases like "stasis management", "at-home stillness" or to be clearer, "stillness throughout the whole region" or "stop all unnecessary movement".
Then came "temporary societal control", which authorities said was not a "lockdown" but reduced movement that somehow would not affect the "normal order of production and life". And yet "the public was asked not to go out unless necessary".
"Enclosed management" was another new phrase invented in the southern province of Guangdong. It means that the village, district or residential compound is enclosed, with checkpoints at entrances and exits. People and vehicles are allowed to enter and leave with passes, the BBC reported.
People who do not live or work in the enclosed area are not allowed to enter. But, residents were told, it's not a lockdown.
When track-and-trace methods started to grate, eager officials came up with an alternative: "temporal and spatial overlapper". The sci-fi-inspired phrase refers to someone whose location, tracked by their phone, has overlapped in time and space with someone else who is Covid-positive.
Rather than tell people not to visit their hometowns during this year's Spring Festival, the governor in Dancheng County in central Henan province warned them that "those who come home with malicious intent will first be quarantined, then be detained", the report said.
Experts also say China's bureaucracy is far more centralised under Xi - it's a reversal of the decentralisation that began after China introduced economic reforms. What that means now is that bureaucrats enforce Xi's signature policies with zeal.
UNI MR。     8 月 26 日消息，Apple TV+ 下个月将推出一部全新的原创喜剧《兄弟》（Brothers），由马修 · 麦康纳和伍迪 · 哈里森联袂主演。

B | 苹果日前公布了该剧的预告片。马修 · 麦康纳和伍迪 · 哈里森将在《兄弟》中出演经过虚构化处理的“自己”。这部剧将于 9 月 23 日星期三首播，首日上线两集，之后每周更新一集，直至 11 月 4 日。

C | 该剧的主创是李 · 艾森伯格，他曾是经典情景喜剧《办公室》的重要创作成员，在该剧第 2 季至第 6 季期间担任编剧和制片人。按照苹果官方公布的剧情简介，《兄弟》讲述了马修 · 麦康纳和伍迪 · 哈里森饰演的虚构版自己。两人多年的友谊，因为一个尘封数十年的秘密而陷入混乱 —— 他们竟然有可能真的是亲兄弟。故事开始于伍迪女儿的订婚告吹。随后，他带着全家前往得州奥斯汀，准备在马修的农场暂住一段时间。原本是一次疗愈之旅，却很快演变成一场混乱。马修的母亲 Ma Mac，由霍兰德 · 泰勒饰演，无意间说漏了一个埋藏多年的秘密：马修和伍迪或许真的有血缘关系。为了查清真相，伍迪几乎把整个农场搅得天翻地覆；与此同时，马修还要面对另一场身份危机 —— 他可能会竞选得克萨斯州州长。最终，《兄弟》将呈现一个既温情又混乱、充满荒诞笑料的故事，围绕友情、家庭、名气，以及传说与现实之间那条模糊的界线展开。

D | 除了《兄弟》之外，Apple TV+ 还将在 9 月推出《流人》（Slow Horses）新一季、原创犯罪惊悚剧《Last Seen》，以及瑞恩 · 雷诺兹主演的电影《Mayday》。Apple TV+ 目前的订阅价格为每月 12.99 美元（注：现汇率约合 87.5 元人民币），用户也可以通过 Apple One 套餐以优惠价格订阅。

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