[AustrianChina]

The Shanghai government was completed sidelined, and the health department top officials replaced by people brought in by Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan. She even attempted to replace Shanghai's health code management software with her own, but that attempt was just abandoned. This article tells the story:

https://austrianchina.substack.com/p/when-the-commissar-came...

[thaumasiotes]

That's not really relevant to who takes the blame, is it?

[throwaway4good]

The Shanghai government will take the blame as they failed to implement the lockdown early and hard policies the rest of China was following.