China has welcomed the Year of the Ox, and before the festival, leaders have been making frequent moves to create a festive atmosphere. Xi Jinping went to Qianxi, Guizhou to “promote the revitalization of the countryside”, “check out the New Year folklore activities of ethnic minorities” and “send New Year wishes to all ethnic groups across the country”, Li Keqiang went to Yuncheng, Shanxi He inspected the local New Year’s Eve market and paid cash for New Year’s Eve goods on the spot.
Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang visit localities every New Year’s Eve to pay their respects to the people, but the two have different styles. Xi Jinping likes to visit poor people’s homes to “lift the lid”, local cadres do a good job, that poor household pot is destined to be fragrant, full of fish, because “can not let the General Secretary disappointed”; as for Li Keqiang, pro-people activities seem more casual, look at the market, ask the price. He bought two large buns, two apples, two “fortune” characters and pastries. He also wished everyone “the year of the ox and the horse, good plowing”. Then he handed over the New Year’s goods he had just bought to the poor households. Li Keqiang, who just became premier on January 27, 2014, visited Jinpo Village in Ankang, Shaanxi Province, and also called Yang Xiufeng, a migrant worker who was working outside, who could not return Home, and brought his Family candy and snacks to comfort them.
The official media often praise the leaders’ pro-people gestures with such topics as “Xi Jinping lifted the lid of a pot and Li Keqiang bought New Year’s Eve goods”. The government’s response to the report is that it is not a good idea to use it as a showcase, but at least this year’s visit is said to be out of character. In Beijing, where the two leaders are based, thousands of migrant workers and people working abroad are unable to go home to visit their relatives this year because of the severe Epidemic prevention measures, and some netizens sighed: “Why do we have to go to Guizhou and Shanxi? Why bother going to Guizhou and Shanxi? It’s better to console the ones under our noses”.
A sparse crowd of travelers waits at the check-in counter at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport as China’s New Year travel season begins.
The communist virus epidemic in China is getting lighter and lighter, with only about a hundred cases a day nationwide, and recently down to a few dozen cases, most of which are said to be “imported cases,” but the official measures are extremely harsh, and all the people in the country have to be quarantined for 7-14 days, and some returnees are even subject to 14+7, and have to It is not clear how many days the quarantine will be after returning to the city after visiting relatives after the holiday. The Chinese call it “the strictest homecoming order in history”, this is not even, various local layers to increase the code, so that the homecoming holiday is only two or three weeks at most, do not play the idea of homecoming before it is too late! The people began to grumble, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that “seemingly strict prevention is actually lazy government”; China health Construction Commission and blame the local “layers of code”, should not be “chaotic action”, to The Chinese Health and Construction Commission also blamed localities for “adding layers and layers of codes” and not to “act indiscriminately” and to “make the New Year full of temperature”. But the people suspect that this is just bureaucrats passing the buck to each other and letting off empty promises. In any case, from the published traffic volume, this year’s return to the hometown has been greatly reduced, and some official media said that this is the people consciously respond to the government’s call to “spend the New Year in place”.
AFP 11 news from Beijing said, “As usual, go home to celebrate the Year of the Ox, regardless of the strictest order to return home? Or do you want to stay in Beijing alone, as the government has called for you to do? Many foreigners working in Beijing are caught in a dilemma”. The New Year, which begins on the 12th, is the most important holiday for Chinese people, and normally, hundreds of millions of Chinese working abroad take advantage of the festival to go home for a reunion, the report said. Although there are still a few confirmed cases here and there, China has largely eliminated the Chinese Communist virus. But anxiety in Beijing seems to be bucking the trend.
In Beijing, the city government has asked residents to avoid all “non-essential travel” during the New Year, and to deter those who dare to return to their hometowns for the holidays, authorities are using a carrot-and-stick approach, offering bonuses for those who stay and increased testing and quarantine Time for those who want to leave. A Gansu native Hou Shibai, who works as a courier in Beijing, said, “To go home, I have to do a nucleic acid test and get a certificate. Very troublesome. He finally decided to stay in Beijing with his wife and daughter for the holidays.
Various restrictive policies and procedures played a role, with AFP citing Beijing government sources that rail passenger traffic was down 80 percent from the same period last year. At the Beijing train station, usually crowded during the festival, seats were now empty in rows and rows, and the ticket office was nowhere to be seen in the long lines that the passing ide was able to make.
Beijing’s controls are perhaps the toughest, with a pre-trip negative nucleic acid certificate required to enter or return to Beijing, a 7-14 day quarantine upon arrival, and a two-week “medical observation” period. This is only the case in Beijing, but travel restrictions have been imposed throughout China, and even many villages have imposed a minimum two-week quarantine on all those returning to visit relatives.
The courier said that he had to be quarantined when he returned to his hometown, and he might be quarantined again when he returned to Beijing, even though his Parents, siblings and friends were expecting the family to return for a reunion, and he canceled his trip to see his family. The family of three shared a house with others in the north of Beijing to welcome the Year of the Ox in a chilly atmosphere. “The atmosphere is far worse than back home,” Hou Shibai told reporters ……”
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