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China hasn't fully beaten it and doesn't claim to have done so. They regularly have to reimpose new measures in areas where the disease flares, up to and including lockdowns - the most recent lockdown I heard about started just two weeks ago. (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3110817/coro...)

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Those lockdowns also come with massive screening tests. Usually lockdowns end in a couple of weeks after the identification of clusters of transmission.

The numbers are generally small (maximum a hundredful), so not difficult to handle.

True. I don't want to imply that they don't have control of things - just, there's no secret strategy they have other than continuous application of harsh measures wherever spread is detected.

I think restaurant, retail ( non food), and hotel owners would feel like 2 weeks of harsh lockdown followed by complete masked opennings would be better than the current situation of months of non-stop partial measures.

Most of China has not had any lockdowns since July. I wish I could travel.

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