{"id":3171,"date":"2022-12-29T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsten.be\/bridging-three-years-of-covid-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-10-28T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T20:29:42","slug":"bridging-three-years-of-covid-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsten.be\/nl\/bridging-three-years-of-covid-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Overbruggen van drie jaar Covid in China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture 1: Horsten China colleagues at exhibitions Picture 2: the Horsten team is ready to help EU companies<\/em><\/p>\n

Just after Christmas, as could be expected after the abolishment of the zero-Covid policy, China announced the opening of its borders and the abandonment of the quarantine for foreign travelers from 8 January 2023 onwards. This is a major change after three years of isolation of China for foreign business travellers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before we look forward to what\u2019s to be expected in 2023, let\u2019s look back to the past three years one more time.<\/p>\n

With our permanent office and loyal team in China since 2001, also before Covid we have been very much engaged in being the eyes & ears of our customers in China. Obviously, after Covid-19 broke out early 2020 and travel to China became almost impossible, we have been focusing even more on this \u2018representation, liaison and watchdog model\u2019<\/strong> for our European customers.<\/p>\n

China suffered severe lockdowns in 2022, but generally speaking, after the first Covid-wave had passed around April 2020, it was largely back to normal in China since May 2020 and the major part of 2021. Hence, despite huge supply chain issues and other economic and social challenges in China, there was a lot going on in China too.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples of a few of the services we provided to our customers in the past 3 years:<\/strong><\/p>\n