Cover Story: China’s Road to Economic Recovery Faces Post-Covid Speed Bumps

Just as the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic was drawing to a close, China’s policy pendulum finally swung from stamping out and controlling spread of the virus towards spurring economic growth, leaving everyone pondering: how will the world’s second-largest economy perform in 2023?

China in late November began abandoning most pandemic restrictions, ending the hyper-strict “zero-Covid” strategy that had taken an increasingly heavy toll on its economy and its people.