Shanghai (China), 12/08/2022.- People scan health QR codes to enter shopping area, in Shanghai, China, 18 October 2022 (issued 19 October 2022). As China holds its 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) this week, many anxiously dwell on the hope that after the event, the country would relax it’s ’covid zero’ policy, a strategy that has dominated everyday life for close to three years. Chinese and foreigners alike look forward to ’day zero’, which the high profile meeting has come to symbolise, in a country disconnected from the rest of the world and where health codes and PCR tests reign. Chinese President Xi Jinping, the main proponent of the ’covid zero’ policy, is expected to be granted a third five-year term during the congress and experts in China politics are of the opinion that relaxing the policy before would imply admitting his anti-pandemic strategy have failed or at least is not working anymore. EFE/EPA/ALEX PLAVEVSKI ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET