As China persists its Zero-Covid Policy while other countries choose to open, with the massive Shanghai lockdown in the past months, many economists have begun to estimate the financial costs of the policy. In the first half of 2022, China reported the lowest quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth since the pandemic outbreak. The unemployment rate has hit a new high. Policy design is an ongoing process deciding the priority. Since the 1980s, the Chinese Communist Party has emphasized on the economic growth as the core of policy design, but the paradigm has shifted now. With an infectious virus now having similar symptoms to a flu, many started to wonder if the economic costs and benefits are no longer the top priority of the policymakers. If not, what will be the next focus?