- The mood on the ground is very different to the official statements.

- … an epidemic control official in Wuhan said that some sectors of the city were already back to
100% resumption rate.
- … struggling with zero profits and huge rents
- … from a long-term perspective, from a three-year perspective the virus is still going to hurt the
long-term growth of Wuhan.
- a second-tier size city within mainland China. 
- The capital of central China's Hubei Province, Wuhan, is both a manufacturing and
transportation hub for the rest of the country.
- hopeful rhetoric
- swift, early action on coronavirus was costly to the economy
- bridge to the recovery
- pushing them out of business.
- relayed to CNN their concern that
- prompting a second lockdown and dealing another blow to the economy.
-  19 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases
- Longstanding friction
- have been pushed to new heights
- … President Donald Trump has led world criticism of China's initial response to the pandemic,
which has caused more than 340,000 deaths and economic carnage worldwide.
- Trump and members of his administration have said China covered up the emergence of the
virus late last year and bungled its initial response.
- "Some political figures in the US rush to label the virus and politicise its origins, stigmatising
China," Wang said.
- WHO members on Tuesday adopted a resolution, tabled by the European Union, at the UN
body's first virtual assembly to review the international handling of the pandemic, but it does not
single out China.
- smear
- … have fabricated too many lies targeting China, and plotted too many conspiracies
- to suppress the semi-autonomous city's pro-democracy movement
- often-violent Hong Kong protests last year against China's growing influence in the financial
hub