Don't you think it will be shameful if they can never get 85% rate? Don't you think it's a loss of face? Of course they will get to the goal.
Yes zero covid is currently the strategy but I'm guessing they can't keep it up without having a damaged supply chain and slow import. So the narrative will be eventually to live with virus in future, with these China official scientist's statements as a prelude.
I believe perhaps there will still be some quarantine in place in near future , eventually reduced to 7 days or so towards mid year etc. Do they not lose face if they promised an opening of border at high vaccination rate but never able to attain this goal? Be a little more optimistic!
Regarding the covid zero opinion scientist, yes he was condemned but that was a long time ago. Now that the party has made official statements through their top virologists about eventually living with covid like the rest of the world, other Chinese scientists have stepped out saying similar things along the line without being banned or taken down.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...irologist-says