一 | AI摘要
厦门大力发展首发经济，构建四位一体服务体系，通过政策扶持与载体建设吸引首店集聚。 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。上半年新增首店超百家，推动消费向品质体验延伸，持续激发城市消费活力，助力国际消费中心城市建设。
二 | 首店云集、首秀频频，规模效应、品牌效应聚集了人气，带火了消费。近日，记者随着“活力中国调研行”采访团，走进福建省厦门市，看“首”字出圈，如何持续激发这一滨海花园城市消费活力。 今年上半年，厦门万象城二期正式投入运营。厦门万象城门店副总经理邓学介绍，商城落地城市首店、特色旗舰店超50家，首店率达43%。 近年来，厦门将发展首发经济作为建设区域性国际消费中心城市、激发消费活力的重要抓手，着力构建“政策引导、载体支撑、场景赋能、服务保障”四位一体的首发经济服务体系，打造国内外知名品牌首发、首秀、首展、首店的集聚地和原创品牌孵化地。 厦门市商务局流通业发展处处长薛航介绍，2025年，厦门市印发促进首发经济高质量发展若干措施，通过优化审批和通关流程降低隐性成本，打造从首店落地到首发首展、再到品牌孵化的完整闭环，全年新增市级及以上品质首店188家，首店能级、业态及区域布局均实现结构性优化。2026年，厦门又印发《厦门市消费新业态新模式新场景试点项目专项资金管理办法（试行）》，对全国性首发活动等实施奖励。
三 | 今年上半年，全市新增各类首店超100家。 “围绕零售、餐饮、文化创意等领域，厦门积极引进国内外知名品牌。2026年，SM厦门CHAO街、K11 Select等高品质商业综合体将陆续开业，形成首店集聚‘强磁场’。”薛航说，结合“季季有首发、月月有首秀”的促消费机制，首店带动各商圈能级向上突破，实现客流与销售额增长。 “厦门区位优势独特，门店可以直面海内外顾客。”原创金属拼装玩具品牌“酷拼工坊”营运经理谢颖尚表示，自5月开业以来，“酷拼工坊”厦门首店的月销量达数千件。
四 | “首发落地既是品牌对厦门城市消费力、影响力的认可，也加速了厦门的消费创新和商业品质提升。”薛航说，首店覆盖餐饮、零售、便民服务等多领域，优化商业业态结构，“在做大首店数量、提升首店能级的同时，厦门推动消费从商品消费向服务消费、体验消费、品质消费延伸，不断拓展消费新场景，满足不同消费群体需求”。（记者 邰晓安 秦宏）。
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