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China is opening up after 3 years — what does it mean for research?

The government has abandoned its ‘zero-COVID’ policy and researchers from inside and outside the country are organizing to meet.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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Palaeoanthropologist Clément Zanolli has been waiting more than three years to see ancient teeth, unearthed in China, that could belong to a previously undescribed ape. Zanolli, from the University of Bordeaux, France, had to cancel his travel plans when China shut its borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. But with the government lifting its onerous quarantine requirements for incoming travellers this month, Zanolli is one of many researchers planning their return to China for conferences, face-to-face meetings and fieldwork.

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Nature 613, 622 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00091-4

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