＂Frozen＂ world cities and China that sprouts sprouts

Source: Nikkei Chinese Network

Global cities seem to be frozen.In order to control the diffusion of new coronary virus, restrictions on going out and business are expanding to the world.Catering shops have stopped business, the flow of people disappears from the street, and the vehicles on the road have also decreased significantly.Tokyo and Osaka also changed because of avoiding requests to go out.However, there are also signs of seeing the dawn.China has begun to appear the germination of recovery such as cargo circulation.In the context of the global demand disappearance, whether China can become a locomotive that drives the economic recovery seems to be the key to the future world economic recovery.

Stay at home to avoid unnecessary going out and save life.In the British capital London, the unmanned streets only show the electronic billboards showing the above slogans.On March 26, the British government increased the amount of fines of illegal out -of -law from £ 60 to £ 120.Except for supermarkets, all stores such as restaurants and other stores are closed.

According to statistics from online restaurant reservation service companies, the number of restaurants in major cities in New York and other major cities in New York decreased significantly after entering March.In Europe and the United States, accompanied by the government's ban from going out, the restaurant's operations are in trouble.

Statistics of Tablecheck (Tokyo), which launched restaurant reservation services in Japan, shows that following Europe and the United States, the current restaurant reservation of domestic cities such as Tokyo has also decreased significantly.Tokyo knows that Koto Koto Koto called on the public to avoid going out on weekends, and the impact has expanded.

Personnel movement is also decreasing.According to the investigation of Tomtom, which analyzes car location information, in major cities around the world, except for Tokyo, traffic congestion on rest days is almost zero.A 40 -year -old taxi driver in London said frustratedly that there was no job at all, so it would not be able to survive.The only thing in the recovery is Shanghai, China.Since the bottom February bottomed out, the traffic of the car has begun to recover slowly.

The movement of the personnel also showed signs of recovery from China.It is considered to control the diffusion of the new coronary virus and restart economic activities as the protagonist.A survey by the ORBITAL Insight of satellite images shows that the number of ships from the world's largest trading port in the world has increased sharply from mid -March in mid -March.

According to China's logistics company, the business volume of transportation of steel and chemicals from inland areas such as Chongqing and Wuhan, Hubei has increased slightly.It is reported that the demand for truck transportation to transport trucks is also increasing.In previous years, after the end of the Chinese New Year holiday, the number of ships in about 2 weeks will return to normal.Due to the extension of the Spring Festival holiday this year and the delay of employees in the port of ports, before mid -March, it lasted for more than a month to downturn.

It is not just China that is recovering.Cargo transportation from the world's second largest port in Singapore and the European Hub Harbor and Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands is also replying.An analyst at data analysis company Cirium believes that the resumption of freight directly reflects China's resumption of work and production.

As the world's factory, China, which is mainly responsible for the intermediate link of commodity production, has begun to return to normal, and ships stranded around the world have also sailed.Master Shipping, the world's largest container shipping company, said that because China has done a good job of acceptance, the transportation of goods in Rotterdam and other places has become active for a while.

However, in the shipping industry, most of the views believe that in the huge consumer markets such as India, the scope of the city has continued to expand, and the decline in maritime transportation is inevitable (Japanese postal shipping company).It is estimated that it will take some time to get rid of the frozen state caused by the new crown epidemic.