SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee said on Saturday that the city aims to fully reopen its borders with mainland China before mid-January, as Beijing accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID-19 rules that have battered economic growth.
The opening would mark the end of a three-year closure that was first imposed when COVID emerged in 2020.
(Reporting by Josh Ye in Hong Kong and Josh Horwitz in Shanghai; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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