“Back from the Dead!
Dear Reader, In case you wondered – no, Laoguiyang isn’t quite dead yet. Perhaps you thought, after having read the last post on this…”

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https://www.fromguiyangwithlove.com/
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Thank you so much for posting.  As far as “Back from the Dead”, remember that its never over until its over, and then its still not over; Not until you say it is. ! I was retired by old age and COVID to living in Northern Michigan, but I still love Guiyang.
Hang in there. You are doing great work.
Jack
(Admin of Tourguizhou.com)
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Starve people, lock them up on the night of a full moon, call

it a “festival”, and the werewolves were bound to come out:

Li Xin, Sixth Tone, 9-8-22

Huaguoyouan goes hungry

Guiyang Lockdown Makes a Supersized Community Go Hungry 
Sixth Tone

Residents at Huaguoyuan Community say they are running out of food amid COVID-19 restrictions.Residents of a supersized housing complex in the southwestern Guizhou province, also known as Asia’s largest residential community, have complained of dwindling food supplies and hunger amid the COVID-19 lockdown in a familiar story that has played out in several cities over the past months.
Several residents at Guiyang’s Huaguoyuan Community, which is home to 500,000 people, said they were either running out of supplies or had gone without any food for few days after their compounds were locked down Saturday, according to social media posts. Some have even made desperate pleas to neighbors asking for any leftover food.

“An older resident at Huaguoyuan Area 1 hasn’t eaten anything for three days,” read a screenshot from messaging app WeChat posted on microblogging platform Weibo. “Please help to spread the word out or send some food.”

The city of Guiyang has reported 301 coronavirus cases as of Wednesday in the latest flare-up that has triggered lockdowns in other parts of southwest China, including cities in Sichuan province and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Around 23% of the city’s symptomatic cases were linked to the housing complex, local authorities said, as several districts and communities remained cordoned off Thursday.
Lockdowns, along with passport-like health codes, have been an integral part of China’s “zero-COVID” policy since the start of the pandemic. Several major cities, including Shanghai, Chengdu, Xi’an, and Sanya have gone into lockdowns in the past nine months alone, with some 33 cities currently under some form of restriction, according to Caixin Global.

Such restrictions have often resulted in the disruption of supply chains, hindering logistics and deliveries of daily essentials. On Wednesday, Guiyang’s pandemic control committee apologized to Huaguoyuan residents, pledging to improve distribution and resolve food shortage issues.

Located in downtown Nanming District, Huaguoyuan claims to be China’s largest urban village redevelopment project and has a total construction area of 18.3 million square meters. The compound has become Guiyang’s major tourism landmark, featuring a shopping mall resembling the White House and hundreds of high-rise buildings.
The lockdown in Huaguoyuan has drawn the ire of users on social media, with many sympathizing with residents and criticizing the local government’s food distribution plan. A related hashtag on Weibo has been viewed over 12 million times as of Thursday afternoon.

“This is surreal. We live in 2022 and yet there are people starving in provincial capital cities like Guiyang,” commented a Weibo user surnamed Lin under a local media report.

I lived in Guiyang for 13 years and it was known as being immune to pandemic attacks.  During the SARS epidemic of 2003, Guizou Province was the only Province to avoid infection.  Local people attributed this to the use of Moutai, a strong (maybe the strongest) Chinese liquor, made in China.  Also, Guizhou has some of the hottest chili peppers in China, which was also believed to be lethal to viruses. In 2020, the virus appeared, but the Chinese had a prompt quarantine, which seems to have limited infections during the initial outbreak to under fifty. The threat was suppressed within two months, and by April a lot of us were walking around without masks on. Guizhou is one of the most remote provinces in China.  I used to tell people that Guiyang was about as far into China before you are coming out. It was very safe. Things have changed now:

Click Here: The Guiyang Virus

I made a diary of the virus and it’s attack . . . Visit:
Jax Covid Diary

The cross cultural and pan-Pacific ties that bind us may save the world someday.  Some people don’t know how it works. Here are two articles that mention the Flying Tigers:

On Saving Americans
and
JTP7 Jesse Pitts – Hero

From Guiyang with Love is a history of pieces of Guiyang. For those who know Guiyang, it is nostalgia for what has passed. It gives a current view of the history of China.  This is more about the place in Guiyang where we used to shop for flowers and birds . . .

Oil Press Town Part II

Ray is a friend from my Guiyang history that has been mentioned here many times.  You can find out about Ray, a little bit, by searching “Ray Mahoney” in my search box on this site.  He is now publishing a newsletter called “China Shorts” which is getting increasingly interesting. Hopefully he won’t get this website banned if I put some of his info on here. Here is a sample:

“Ch shorts: “China seals city as its worst virus outbreak in a year grows”; “Asian American Characters On Screen Are More Likely To Be Laughed At Than Laughed With”; video: “Asian Americans Reflect On TV Characters That Shaped Their Self-image”; “Tokyo Olympics: Taiwan stars trolled by Chinese nationalists”; “Harris will reject China’s claim in the South China Sea during trip to Asia”; “Sorry, America: China’s leading the real Olympic medal count”; “Macau to test population after four new COVID-19 cases”; “UAE rolls out Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 3-17”; “Germany to offer booster against COVID-19, vaccines for children”; FP Africa Brief: “Ghana doubles down on homophobic laws”; “‘Gold Diggers’ Captures The Weight Of The Model Minority Myth Sanjena Sathian’s riveting debut novel is already being developed into a TV series by Mindy Kaling’s production company”; “The Entire Population of Wuhan is Getting Tested for COVID-19 – More than a year and a half after the . . .”

If you have an interest in his newsletter or if you want more published on this site, please let me know with an email to: My Email Address and I will forward your message appropriately.