Piling onto a packed train, factory owner Wang Chunfeng was among millions of Chinese looking to make up for lost time this Lunar New Year after years of pandemic-enforced separation from family. China will this weekend usher in the Year of the Rabbit, kicking off “Spring Festival” and the most important annual family gathering. With […]
Piling onto a packed train, factory owner Wang Chunfeng was among millions of Chinese looking to make up for lost time this Lunar New Year after years of pandemic-enforced separation from family. China will this weekend usher in the Year of the Rabbit, kicking off "Spring Festival" and the most important annual family gathering. With…
China will this weekend usher in the Year of the Rabbit, kicking off “Spring Festival” and the most important annual family gathering. The couple, who run a restaurant near Shanghai, were forced to make the six-hour journey in seats far apart from each other.After the virus emerged in Wuhan, its 11 million citizens spent the 2020 Lunar New Year in a lockdown that would cut it off from the outside world for 76 days.Over the next three years a shifting raft of restrictions on movement and myriad testing requirements made travelling around China fiendishly difficult.
Backpack on her knees, suitcase and sports bag under her feet, a young woman in a snug yellow hat killed time watching a TV series on her phone, while an older man snored as he napped contentedly in his seat.All the travellers AFP spoke to aboard the train said they had caught the virus and recovered.
Ding Qiongxia, a property management worker from Wuhan who works in Shanghai, was travelling home for the first time in two years.
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