At the recent Chinese Consultative Society Conference held in Beijing, a member of the Consultative Society Mr. Wang Yu disclosed that vaccines produced by major Chinese pharmaceutical companies failed to meet the minimum standards required by the state, which paid for the vaccines for the public. Wang did not name any specific Chinese pharmaceutical company. But it is known that two of Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers, Sinopharm and Sinovac, produced widely distributed vaccines to the Chinese public.  


The Chinese vaccines were produced using inactivated virus of the Covid-19, which is in itself an old methodology compared to mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna. The mRNA vaccines have proven to be effective among 95% applications whereas the vaccines produced by the Chinese pharmaceutical companies achieved effectiveness rates in the low 50% range.  





As a result of the vaccines' failure to meet the minimum government standards, the Covid-19 variants Delta and Omnicron, have caused an upsurge of infection cases in Xian, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and now in some districts in Beijing. 

It is reported that some top Chinese government officials became angry upon learning the failure of the Chinese pharmaceutical companies and demanded a thorough investigation. It is easy to understand the official anger as China's economy and people's livess are being disrupted severely, causing widespread dissatisfaction. 

The disruptions caused by the anti-coronavirus measures are so severe that the chairman of European Union Chamber of Commerce in China Jörg Wuttke wrote a letter to China's Vice Premier Hu Chun Hua. In his letter, Wuttke suggested China give up the 'old method'  of zero tolerance policy toward the coronavirus, instead import and use effective vaccines and adopt the successful anti-coronavirus measures by the Singapore government. 




Hu Chun Hua is a member of Chinese Communist Party Politburo. But it is Xi Jin Ping who decided China must have zero tolerance policy toward the coronavirus. Xi Jin Ping touted the success of China's measures aganst the coronavirus, and contrasted the success to Western countries that suffered massive infections and deaths. Xi Jin Ping told the president of WHO during his visit to Beijing in 2020 that it was Xi himself who 'commanded and planned the campaign to stop the coronavirus' in China.

Jörg Wuttke wrote the letter on behalf of 1800 EU companies that operate in China. His letter is sincere and his suggestions have common sense. But no one can count on Xi Jin Ping to take up the suggestions of common sense.