A rural announcement in Hebei: received a notice from the higher levels are not allowed to go home for the New Year

Shijiazhuang, Hebei: Staff disinfecting

Earlier, the Chinese Communist Party officially required that people returning to their hometowns during the Chinese New Year be monitored at Home for 14 days, far longer than the length of annual leave, which was questioned as a disguise to prevent people from returning home for the New Year. A few days ago, a rural village in Hebei even issued a public notice, saying that people from outside the county are forbidden to return to their hometown, triggering an outcry on the Internet.

According to a photo published by the mainland media, Xiduzhuang in Linxi County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, posted a notice saying: “Received a notice from the higher level, all the village in the county outside the work, business, working people, since today is not allowed to go home for the New Year. If there is unauthorized violation of the directive, all the consequences at your own risk.”

According to the content of the announcement, it is presumed that people outside the county are not allowed to return home, most likely at the request of the county government.

The announcement has sparked heated debate on the Internet, netizens have accused “inhumane”. Xiduzhuang subsequently revised the content of the announcement. The village secretary told Lu media helplessly, “The village people also do this according to their superiors”. Then he explained, “They sent the wrong one! It’s not that it’s not allowed, just try not to come back”.

Some netizens believe that the lower levels of the implementation of the higher policy is always “guessing the upper intention”, the initiative to add layers of code. But some people think that “the village people did not misunderstand the meaning of the upper level, but should not say too straightforward, this is the level of the problem”.

Xidouzhuang village committee notice. (Web Photo)

On January 20, the National health Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an “Epidemic prevention program”, which stipulates that returnees must return home with a valid negative nucleic acid test result within 7 days, and implement 14 days of home health monitoring after returning home, during which Time they will not gather or move, and will be tested for nucleic acid once every 7 days. The program sparked an uproar on the Internet, netizens said that the New Year holiday is only 7 days, but to isolate 14 days, “not allowed to return home to say”!

Subsequently, officials were forced to come forward to “explain” that the 14-day “home health monitoring” is not a 14-day quarantine, but only requires “non-essential not to go out” and so on.