Sofia Santos Costa

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Pedestrians wait to cross a road at a signal light as rain falls in Shenzhen, China (representational image) | Photo: Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg Text Size: Beijing: China is turning the screws on the nation’s companies as authorities seek to take advantage of the global pandemic to strengthen its industrial might. After letting inefficient firms survive for years, Beijing is now allowing them to fail.