Oh dear, what a year. Here's an overview of the 26 biggest trending topics on Chinese social media in 2022.
Five major views and discussions on Chinese social media in light of the country's sudden opening up and Covid wave.
Covid-positive people in Hangzhou who do not want to or cannot isolate at home can now apply to voluntarily stay at a 'health home.'
"Before, we were buying food and waited for lockdowns. Now, we are buying medicine and wait for infections."
Having Covid at home is a novel concept in 'zero Covid' China. To go to the hospital or not? That's the question.
The epidemic situations in the smaller cities of Baoding and Dazhou have particularly attracted attention online.
"Everyone is really happy but there is a black cloud heading our way."
Bus and subway operators in Beijing will no longer refuse entry to passengers without a 48-hour negative nucleic acid certificate.
Some suggest that a 'political coming out' is even more important than the other kind of 'coming out.'
As people in Beijing, Shanghai, and other places take to the streets holding up white papers, some have dubbed this the "A4 Revolution."
In Shanghai, people paid tribute to the victims of the Ulumqi fire by lighting candles, and also found other ways to vent their frustrations.
"They say it's cleared, so it is cleared. The building was on fire, now the internet is on fire."
As people mourned the victims of the Urumqi fire, they also expressed anger over how the last 100 days of their lives were spent in lockdown.
Fed up with Foxconn, employees vented their frustrations and started a riot at the Zhengzhou factory campus.
Bluffing in Zhengzhou: "Nothing scarier than the newly acquired power of people at the lowest rung of society."
As Covid-19 cases are on the rise, Beijing is not opening up, but closing down.
On Weibo, many people held different views on the incident regarding two women being tied up after violating Guangzhou anti-epidemic rules.
"Will there also be gold, premium, and diamond Covid-19 test VIP packages in the future?"
There's online outrage about excessive and senseless Covid anti-epidemic measures in Heilongjiang after two shop incidents went viral.
These are China's new rules regarding the "further optimization of the Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control."
