‘Beijing was as close as ever to full aerial lockdown as it prepared to host the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party’. The impact of China’s zero-Covid policy is on display in the downward slopes of its air travel, LNG imports, and crude inventories, energy and environmental geo-analytics company Kayrros outlined in a new report sent to Rigzone. “Beijing was as close as ever to full aerial lockdown as it prepared to host the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the highlight of the CCP’s five-year political cycle,” Kayrros stated in the report. “Kayrros analysis of automated dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals from planes shows air traffic in and out of the capital dropped to the lowest level on record in the run-up to the event, even below that at the peak of the Covid-9 pandemic in 2020,” Kayrros added. In the report, Kayrros noted that Beijing is […]