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Updated February 6th, 2022 at 14:13 IST

China's return travel rush peaks as NY holiday ends

Chinese passengers have begun traveling back from their hometowns across the country as the Spring Festival holiday draws to an end.

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Chinese passengers have begun traveling back from their hometowns across the country as the Spring Festival holiday draws to an end. As the biggest family reunion holiday in China, the Spring Festival usually sees the biggest annual movement as hundreds of millions of people who move across the country for work, travel to visit family.

For the third year in a row, the government encouraged people to avoid long-distance trips as the country was coping with sporadic coronavirus outbreaks. Despite this more than 90 million railway trips were made from January 17 to February 2 according to Chinese State News Agency.

In the railway stations in Beijing, passengers pushing suitcases and wearing masks filed out of railway exits on Sunday. Zhao Qiao'e, a housekeeping worker whose hometown is Hebei Province, recounted strict coronavirus measures before she boarded the train, saying they made her feel safe. Wearing a red scarf, 49-year-old Chai Xiaoping arrived Sunday morning from Tianjin with dampened memory of the lunar new year celebration.

"In the past, my home was more lively and more festive with the family reunion. But this year we celebrated the Spring Festival in Tianjin, the children in Beijing, and the elderly in hometown. We were separated into several clusters," said Chai, "Epidemic messed it up." Chen Zhufen, 22, from Henan Province was also reminiscent of his childhood memory. "In the past, the sky was bright during the Spring Festival, but in the past two years, the sky is dark with only sound but no light, and no fireworks," said Chen. 

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Published February 6th, 2022 at 14:13 IST

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