The Communist Party of China (CPC) authorities have offered “New Year in Place” measures as the virus Epidemic continues to spread, and people have been asked not to return to their hometowns. (Photo source: Weibo)
As the epidemic continues to grow, officials have imposed restrictions on the flow of people returning to their hometowns, and members of the Communist Party and government agencies and public enterprises have been restricted from doing so.
The Central News Agency reported that Xiao Chen, who is a janitor at a public prosecution and law enforcement agency in Beijing, has a part-Time job in addition to his regular job in the countryside of Sichuan, and his income is still decent. Every year, her biggest wish is to take a 10-hour green sleeper train from Beijing to Chengdu, and then take a long-distance passenger transport back to her hometown for the New Year. But this year, she can not go back.
Chen said that at the end of December 2020, her unit issued a notice in black and white, ordering everyone, including cleaning staff, not to return Home for the New Year this year. Immediately after, the unit’s supervisor verbally informed that if they were caught returning to their hometowns for the New Year privately, they would be directly dismissed; if they were members of the Communist Party, they would also have to undergo party disciplinary action.
This order, let Chen froze, but can only receive silent acceptance. If he was dismissed for going back home for the New Year, it would be much more troublesome for himself.
In January 2020, when the Chinese Communist virus broke out on the mainland, Xiao Chen also returned to her hometown for the New Year. As a result, she was instead stuck in her hometown for 2 months and did not return to Beijing until March.
This contrast made Chen feel a little disappointed that she could not go back to her hometown for New Year’s Eve this year, but she was relieved to think that she had spent two months in her hometown the year before.
However, for Mike, who is also unable to go back home for New Year’s Eve this year and works as an engineer in a private technology company in Shangdi, Beijing, he is much more disappointed.
Mike, a native of Anhui province, was not able to go home for New Year’s Eve in 2020 when the epidemic was severe. He didn’t return home for a week’s vacation until the epidemic slowed down at the end of May.
This year, Mike had 12 days of vacation scheduled for New Year’s Eve, and was ready to go back home for the holidays. However, the company requested that employees above a certain level “should stay in Beijing for the New Year” and those below a certain level “are not encouraged to go to Beijing for the New Year”. He had to give up his 12 days of leave and stay in Beijing for the New Year.
He said helplessly that he was quite disappointed not to be able to go back home for the New Year for two consecutive years, so he could only change his mood. After all, the New Year back home and other days back home, the feeling is very different. Otherwise, the New Year, why everyone crowded to buy a ticket home for the New Year?
Old Huang, who runs a cafe in Beijing, is much luckier. He handed over his store to his partner and returned to his hometown in a coastal city in Shandong Province with his wife and children in mid-January, accidentally avoiding the official order of the Chinese Communist Party that those who return to their hometown must be tested for nucleic acid first, and preparing to spend the New Year in his hometown.
Huang, who is sensitive to current affairs, said he saw the official order and the official media reports and smelled the tendency of the policy to restrict people from returning to their hometowns for the New Year.
Earlier, it was reported that before the New Year, the virus accelerated its spread across the mainland, and many provinces and cities were closed to traffic and people were strictly ordered not to go out.
Beijing, Shanghai, Ningxia, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hebei and other places have also issued the initiative of “not returning home during New Year’s Eve unless necessary”, encouraging enterprises and institutions to arrange flexible leave and spend New Year’s Eve in place if possible.
Zhejiang Province even encouraged enterprises to issue “stay-at-home bonuses” and consumption vouchers to attract foreign employees to spend the New Year locally. The local government also issued a notice requesting enterprises with more orders not to stop work during the New Year, and to use the “stay-at-home and stay-at-home with salary” method to let employees stay.
In addition, on January 20, the National health Commission of the Communist Party of China issued a regulation requiring those returning to their hometown to have a valid negative nucleic acid test result within 7 days, and to implement a 14-day home test after returning to their hometown, and not to gather or move around during that period, and to have another nucleic acid test every 7 days. Some netizens said, “This quarantine period is longer than the holidays, so if you don’t want to return home, just say so!
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