here are two young women who've come
through the virus in china
two people who've had a very different
journey two people now with very
different things on their mind
going forward pan is back in her tiny
apartment
after a two and a half thousand mile
round trip
when she was forced to stay with her
parents now given it all started here in
china
she's worried about what the world
outside will think of her
well
you know
i hope next year i can i can get a
new bar before that though harassment
hassle maybe even intimidation that is
what she's worried about
at the start of february shanghai was a
ghost town a city of 24 million people
empty not now though this is what a
return to normal looks like
you're feeling cold alright despite the
rain pan is happy these days
some of her friends never came back to
shanghai they opted instead for safer
government jobs
at home but she's on her way to her new
job in a bar restaurant
she is saving them china rejects any
accusation that it was slow
to react to the outbreak of this virus
and it points to its official death toll
4750 as evidence that it won what it
called a war against the virus
all of which means you get this normal
life was pretty much resumed
the economic recovery was quick china
kept people working by
borrowing to build yet again but simply
put some think it's ended up with people
making a lot of stuff but not really
buying a lot of stuff
we do know that unemployment among
migrant workers has been higher
we also know when you look at the
breakdown of consumption
certain items expensive items luxury
cars for example
consumption there has grown very very
quickly so that gives a sense that it's
very lopsided socially
as well as in terms of supply versus
demand
lopsided or not business for joe is good
once again
people want the custom-made bags that
she crafts
she told me she's a patriot her mom's in
the communist party but she's been doing
some soul-searching
she said washington
feeling sorry mistakes made it's very
unusual to hear that language from
someone here with party connections
joe was on the front line back in
february in a nearby village
she's even got the certificate to prove
it saying sorry though
is not something she thinks china's
leader can do so where a woman
and as to what those reasons might be
well she didn't say
robin brown to bbc news shanghai