Published: January 19th, 2021,
Last updated: February 15th, 2023
Strict lockdown – fast recovery: That is the short formula through which China achieved economic growth of a remarkable 2.3 percent in the Covid year. Other countries in Asia were also able to return to normality all the more quickly thanks to consistent containment of the pandemic. Germany, on the other hand – as an exporting nation quite comparable with China or South Korea – is down five percent.