More than 20,000 bankers, traders, and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China’s giant financial hub ticking over through a COVID-19 lockdown, according to local administration officials. Brokerages, asset managers, and financial exchanges in Lujiazui – China’s answer to Wall Street – rushed to summon key personnel to offices ahead of Monday’s lockdown in Shanghai, and prepared sleeping bags and basic supplies for overnight stays. Some have also adopted two-team rotation shifts and initiated disaster recovery centers in a financial hub that processed more than 2,500 trillion yuan ($292 trillion) of financial transactions last year. The 20,000 people working at 285 office towers in Pudong’s Lujiazui Financial City, east of the Huangpu River, include white-collar workers and some service staff, according to the administration bureau of the district, also home to some […]