Fosun licensed the technology and production process in 2020. They could easily have laundered the damned thing into the fruit of domestic development, referred to it as the Fosun vaccine, cranked up local production capacity, etc. over 2021 and had basically everyone vaccinated with a effective shot by June 2022 in response to the Shanghai debacle, at which point the rebound from reopening would have ensured few remembered or cared about that clusterfluffle by 2025.

Instead they're going to have to back down when woefully unprepared, and frankly if Omicron turns out to be as innately lethal as Delta or Beta to immuno-naïve populations, 2 million or more people will be dead by the end of March, 2023, after the entire healthcare system collapses utterly.

They'll never admit to that number or anything like it, but every single person in the country will lose an elderly relative or know a close friend who did, which will poison the well regarding the credibility of macro-level data from the authorities for a long, long time.