While’s it’s been a week of relatively good news for China as regards Covid-19, in Hubei Province they might as well be celebrating. This morning, 20 March, saw the border town of Honghu join others in the province in lifting the lockdown.
虽然对于中国来说，这是关于 Covid-19 的相对好消息的一周，但在湖北省，他们也应该庆祝一下。 3 月 20 日上午，边境城镇洪湖与省内其他城镇一起解除了封锁。
On 23 January, the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, was quarantined in a move that became known overnight as the Wuhan Lockdown (武汉封城). The world looked on and gasped as other cities in Hubei Province suffered the same fate. The World Health Organisation (WHO) called the move, “unprecedented in public health history”.
1月23日，湖北省省会武汉市被隔离，此举一夜之间被称为“武汉封城”。当湖北省其他城市遭受同样的命运时，全世界都在观望并叹息。世界卫生组织 (WHO) 称此举“在公共卫生史上前所未有”。
Almost 2 months later, on Wednesday of this week, Hubei’s Covid-19 task force announced that all anti-epidemic traffic checkpoints, province wide, are to be removed. Entry and exit checkpoints for Wuhan and the province as a whole continue.
近2个月后，本周三，湖北新冠肺炎特别工作组宣布全省所有抗疫交通检查站都将被拆除。 武汉和全省的出入境检查站仍在继续。
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Today, it’s the turn of the people of Honghu to breathe that long-awaited sigh of relief, as they heard the news that Circular No. 12 from the the town’s governing body would come into effect at 9 am this morning, effectively ending the lockdown.
今天，轮到洪湖人民发出期待已久的松了一口气，因为他们听到该镇管理机构的第12号通知将于今天上午9点生效的消息，有效地结束了封锁。
As reported this morning by The Paper, the Circular, that is similar to those being issued elsewhere, calls for:
正如《报》今天上午报道的那样，该通告与其他地方发布的通告相似，呼吁：
- continued strong management and control over exits from Hubei;
- less formal procedures to report those returning;
- removal of all checkpoints on national and provincial trunk routes, as well as those on all streets, lanes, communities and residential areas in the city, together with those in towns, villages and communities in rural areas;
- residents to use the health code to enter and exit residential areas;
- community management to do a good job in registration, temperature monitoring and other control work;
- resumption of business by classification and in sequence;
- gradual restoration of public transport.
Honghu is hardly a well-known place. Yet, the county-level town is important for a number of reasons. Coming under the juristriction of Jingzhou, the town sits on the Yangtze River and derives its name from the adjacent Red Lake (洪湖; Honghu). This section of the Yangtze also forms the border with neighbouring Hunan Province.
洪湖几乎不是一个众所周知的地方。 然而，县级城镇之所以重要，原因有很多。 该镇受荆州管辖，位于长江沿岸，得名于邻近的红湖（洪湖；洪湖）。 长江的这一部分也与邻近的湖南省接壤。
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With a population of a little under one million, Honghu derives much of its economic activity from the nearby lake, producing 40 kinds of fish and a huge variety of flora, including lotus, reed and black algae. The removal of the lockdown shall be a big step in getting the lake back into production.
洪湖人口不到100万，大部分经济活动都来自附近的湖泊，生产40种鱼类和各种各样的植物，包括荷花、芦藕和黑藻。 解除封锁将是让湖泊恢复生产的一大步。
The city’s foreign connection comes in the form of New Zealand political activist, Rewi Alley. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, Alley carried out flood relief work in Honghu in 1932 and was instrumental in establishing the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives that promoted grassroots industrial and economic development.
这座城市的对外关系以新西兰政治活动家Rewi Alley的形式出现。 作为中国共产党党员，阿利于1932年在洪湖开展了防洪工作，并在建立促进基层工业和经济发展的中国工业合作社方面发挥了重要作用。
In the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries hangs a painting of Alley. Elsewhere, in her 1985 New Year Honours, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him “Companion of the Queen’s Service Order” for community service.
中国人民对外友好协会北京总部挂着一幅小巷的画作。 在其他地方，伊丽莎白二世女王在1985年的新年荣誉中授予他“女王服务勋章”以表彰他社区服务。
