China has built a 5,000-room Contactless Quarantine Centre. More in the pipeline.

This is good news for the global economy that relies on China’s trade ability.

A brand new, 5000-room quarantine facility set to open in days has revealed China's goal to reaching Covid-zero. Construction 250,000sqm build time, 3 months cost US$260 million ($377 million NZD). With many more set to construct.

Three-storey high buildings, and almost 200 staff are already on the ground ahead of the first arrivals. Travellers sent from airport by bus to quarantine at least a fortnight. Minimal contact 3 meals a day delivered by robots, check in/out via technology.

"This is not just a stopgap measure. [Leaders] hold the view that this pandemic is going to take a while to end, and China is going to continue this strict control of its borders.

'Strict rules'

When the plan was first announced back in June, China's leading epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said in a statement it was necessary to protect the wider population and economy.

Zero tolerance'

According to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, the facility is a world leader.

Covid

"It's arguably the most state-of-the-art quarantine centre in the world, if you will – very hi-tech, very sophisticated," he told CNN.

There will be minimal contact between staff and guests.

"This is not just a stopgap measure. [Leaders] hold the view that this pandemic is going to take a while to end, and China is going to continue this strict control of its borders.

"Facilities like this serve as a way to institutionalise the zero-tolerance strategy."

'Strict rules'

When the plan was first announced back in June, China's leading epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said in a statement it was necessary to protect the wider population and economy. Guangzhou receives up to 90 per cent of China's international visitors.

"There will be 5000 isolated spaces and the people there will be isolated according to strict rules to make sure they do not infect each other," he said. Hotel quarantine is not an effective strategy.