Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the official media Global Times, made a comment on Weibo about “spending New Year’s Eve locally”, but it drew a wave of criticism from Chinese netizens. (File photo)
The local Epidemic in China continues to spread, with the number of confirmed cases reaching 100 in a single day. However, as the New Year approaches, the massive influx of people returning to their hometowns as a result of the Spring Festival may add to the epidemic, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have been advocating “spending New Year’s Eve locally”, advising people not to return to their hometowns unless necessary. In response, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, an official media outlet of the Communist Party of China, posted an article on Weibo endorsing this policy, but it drew a wave of criticism from Chinese netizens.
Hu Xijin said in a Weibo post on 22nd, “Objectively speaking, China can’t afford to have a big nationwide movement of people during the Spring Festival, so I think it’s right for the state to make some restrictions on going Home for the New Year and encourage people to spend the New Year in their workplace. Of course, we have to do a good job of humanizing the people who spend the holidays in place, and at the same Time there are really situations to go, but also to let go, to make the process as harmonious as possible on the whole. And said his company in Beijing has strongly requested everyone to try not to leave the capital during the New Year.
Hu Xijin even shouted that “everyone is a participant” and that “responding to the call to spend the holidays in place is doing one’s part. To put it another way, the restriction on returning home for the New Year, but our outlook on Life can remain basically normal, so down the road, the damage is likely to be minimal.
However, this article has sparked public discontent, among which Chinese netizens agree with the call to “start with yourself, safety first, wear a mask and wash your hands regularly”, but there are also more messages angrily criticizing “Lao Hu’s Family is all from Beijing”, “foreign countries do not properly restrict the return home, but the country itself restricts the old people to come home over, I really just do not understand”, “how far your thoughts are, you can give me as far as possible”, “after all, it is the rural people who carry all”.
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