Hello, I'm Fergus Nicol. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. Coming up in today's edition,

why China is bucking a global trend and growing again. We'll hear from Wuhan. I think live is

getting really normal now. I already did a lot of things that I used to do, like going to the cinema and karaoke.

Also in the program today, we'll explore China's environmental goals.

I think wind, solar and electric vehicles are clearly important. They're going to be critical

if China wants to achieve its carbon neutrality goal by

2016. So how important is it to have specific environmental targets baked in to the next

five-year plan? That's all in business daily from the BBC. Over the past 10 months, the world has learned a new language of disease, the specifics of viral

infection and its global spread, the impact on our economies, our livelihoods, our families.

We know that the coronavirus was first seen on a large scale in China, and we know that until

draconian control measures were

implemented by the authorities, it hit business in China as hard as anywhere. An era of uninterrupted

growth dating back to the 1970s was brought to a halt. But then came the bounce back,

so much so, in fact, that analysts at the Economist Intelligence Unit

expect the Chinese economy to be around the same size in 2021 as they predicted back in 2019.

Just let that sink in for a moment. And if we use this, albeit crude, yardstick, for China,

it's almost like the epidemic never happened.

But as my colleague Su Ping Chan reports, COVID-19 has still left scars on the world's second biggest

economy.

It's back to blackboards and books in this English lesson in Wuhan.

COVID-19 has made getting students back to school a global challenge.

Teacher Li Kuan returned to his classroom months ago.

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