Also note the burglar bars on the first and second floors of the building - further showing that China is closing-in on First World status in the bad ways too.
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Those bars aren’t to keep bad guys out, but to keep the residents in. They were put there during the last Chinese covid panic on orders of Xi Jinping to keep covid cases confined.
Lots of people died from starvation because of that, others burned to death when their buildings caught fire.
“Those bars aren’t to keep bad guys out, but to keep the residents in. They were put there during the last Chinese covid panic on orders of Xi Jinping to keep covid cases confined.”
Good point and better explains why they are also on the second floor as jumping from there is somewhat doable for healthy people, but breaking-in from there, very unlikely.