Wuhan, from the epicenter of the pandemic to the tourist hub

In the streets of Wuhan, China, white-tailed rats they’re attached to a bamboo pole that stabs them from mouth to tail, and for $ 2 they’re roasted in front of the customer. Bats suffer the same fate ($ 1.40 small; $ 2.75 large). In short, you could say that anything that walks, flies, crawls or anything can be bought in the Wuhan market, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic this will make 2020 the year the entire planet lived on the edge of the ledge.

And it almost sounds ironic, but in China they call Wuhan “The pot of China” for summers above 30 degrees. The “pressure cooker” where Sars-COV-2 exploded motivated this year 72 million newspaper articles in Spanish. The last five days of January 2020, the search on google from the word Wuhan, this ultramodern metropolis of 3,500 years old and 11 million inhabitants who today a “tourist center”, it was 100%.

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Wuhan grew up at the confluence of two rivers, Han and Yangtze, and, to this day, consists of three mini-cities separated by bridges. One of them was the first truly modern China to have the first major bridge in 1957. Plana in the center and mountainous in the south, landlocked but with countless floods throughout history, it has managed to retain a classic circular construction of 223, where intellectuals met, to continue to be its most beautiful and iconic representation although it was rebuilt in the 20th century.

Wuhan market

The infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (“South China”) is located in Jianghan District, near Hankou Station. In fact, Wuhan is a nerve center of central China and dozens of lines, trains and highways run from here to the rest of the country.
The 50,000 square meter market gathers a thousand positions.

Throughout its existence, it has suffered fires, union protests, accusations of hatchery monopoly, smuggling, predation of intangible species, sale of wild animals -Something forbidden in the letter, but which is mysteriously reborn after each inspection. The World Health Organization considered the Wuhan market to be the epicenter of the spread of the epidemic from which the entire planet suffers until today.

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Touristic destination

Nearby, the East Lake is China’s largest urban lake and the favorite promenade on sunny days: 87 square kilometers of Eden with ponds, lotus blossoms, plum trees, cherry trees and curving red bridges.

For shelter on rainy days, Wuhan offers the Museo Hubei, with extremely rare musical instruments in the long list of local archaeological finds in its catalog.

Wuhan is also looking to the future and it is a flourishing economic and financial pool. It is home to the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, the Three Gorges Dam, which can be visited by cruise: 22,500 megawatts of power and a capacity of 39,300 cubic hectometers. It was Mao Zedong’s big dream and so that there is no doubt, wrote him a poem writing.

If this postcard lacks green, please note: Montes Wudang, Patrimonium of mankind. A set of 72 peaks shrouded in impenetrable mist, with the exception of the tourist cable car. With endless ravines, martial arts centers and traditions that connect the place to the Buddhism and Taoism. Here the modern visitor connects to the country’s ancestral ties.

Wuhan has several chemical, steel and biotechnology hubs and is one of the Chinese cities of where France is at the top of the largest number of companies. In 2015, the newspaper The Guardian He considered it “the capital of the automotive industry”, with Renault, Peugeot and Citroën occupying its factories, not to mention 300 other international companies from various fields.

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Wuhan Pospandemia

While in the West Wuhan can’t get rid of its negative semantics, the Communist Party celebrates “its” heroic war against the coronavirus epidemic with tributes to doctors they worked tirelessly. They are spreading that Wuhan “is clean” of the coronavirus and promoting its attractions.

The first prize, however, is vertical and for Xi Xinping, 67-year-old Beijing chemical engineer who chairs the People’s Republic of China since 2013.
There are of course opponents of public policies. Zhang Hai, one of them, is a resident of the city and complained to a reporter about German wave: “I think they should change the name from ‘government of the people’ to ‘government of the Wuhan bureaucrats’. During the pandemic, her father was hospitalized for medical treatment in a military hospital; contracted covid-19 and died. We know these sad stories are not just Chinese anyway, but when Zhang Hai assures him that he will sue the state, everyone looks away.

the the streets of Wuhan, capital of Hubei, are shaking again and that seems the important thing. A week ago the Big wall China was buzzing with people, back to back. During Golden Week in early October – a 7-day national holiday – 600 million Chinese visited tourist attractions in their own country, taking advantage of promotions and free tickets.

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And the virus – they say – has not reappeared. In the Happy Valley Theme ParkFrom Wuhan, hundreds of people celebrated Halloween on October 31. And the city zoo has been open since April 2020.

All This news is far from that which comes from other corners of the world: more cases, more variants of coronavirus, new restrictions, economic collapse, etc.

Meanwhile, official information indicates that in China there is almost no case and the new standard is like the old one, but with a chin strap, except in Beijing, where it is not compulsory to wear it.

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The recent study, published by experts at the University of Washington, Ohio State University and the American communications company AT&T, reconfigured the statistics of the crematorium and funeral home movement in Wuhan and the new figures are ten times the official figures. However, human damage would be twenty times less than in the United States.

As of yet, there is no data that refutes the above and turns his epic against the coronavirus into a chinese story. If you can watch them dispassionately, the results of their rigid “hammer and sickle” approach work better than the rest of the world.

In Wuhan, they lived 76 days of strict confinement, while other Chinese cities continued their normal activities. Even today, Chinese people and visitors have to activate an application on their mobile phone that gives them a tricolor QR code. Like the traffic light, the color that triggers your body temperature tells you if you can continue your trip or if you will be arrested and locked in a health center.

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When China was 55 days case-free, in September appeared 12 new positives in Qingdao. During 5 days the entire population was swabbed: 9 million people– All contacts were then carefully followed up for positive results.

Chinese policy was to remove the virus, not live with it. History will judge whether they did it right or wrong. The truth is, China enters 2021 with a recovering economy as Wuhan rises without having the bullets.