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A |     4月25日晚，搭载神舟十八号载人飞船的长征二号F遥十八运载火箭在酒泉卫星发射中心点火发射。点火发射瞬间，三位航天员齐刷刷敬礼感动了屏幕前的网友：“这个画面太珍贵了，祝福！致敬中国航天人！”　　第四次“太空会师”！“全家福”再+1！　　据中国载人航天工程办公室消息，神舟十八号载人飞船入轨后，于北京时间26日3时32分，成功对接于空间站天和核心舱径向端口，整个自主交会对接过程历时约6.5小时。    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。　　在载人飞船与空间站组合体成功实现自主快速交会对接后，神舟十八号航天员乘组从飞船返回舱进入轨道舱。　　北京时间26日5时04分，在轨执行任务的神舟十七号航天员乘组顺利打开“家门”，欢迎远道而来的神舟十八号航天员乘组入驻“天宫”。两个平均年龄不到40岁的“飞天组合”在“天宫”会师。　　在载人飞船与空间站组合体成功实现自主快速交会对接后，神舟十八号航天员乘组从飞船返回舱进入轨道舱。　　北京时间26日5时04分，在轨执行任务的神舟十七号航天员乘组顺利打开“家门”，欢迎远道而来的神舟十八号航天员乘组入驻“天宫”。两个平均年龄不到40岁的“飞天组合”在“天宫”会师。　　后续，两个航天员乘组将在空间站进行在轨轮换。其间，6名航天员将共同在空间站工作生活约5天时间，完成各项既定工作。　　（中国小康网综合@新华社、央视新闻）。

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