[World Report] Chinese New Year's Great Movement Begins... Will the corona spread nightmare be reproduced?

China's biggest holiday,'Chunje', has started.

The Chinese government designates 40 days from the 15th before the Chinese New Year to the 25th after the Chinese New Year as a special transportation for the Lunar New Year, the so-called'chunyun' period.

This year's Lunar New Year Festival is February 11th, so Chunyun starts on January 28th and continues until March 8.

According to the Chinese search site Baidu Encyclopedia, the word Chun-yun first appeared in the Chinese state media'People's Daily' in 1980.

In China, the number of farmers, self-employed people, and students who went abroad to work or study increased sharply as regulations on the movement of population eased after reform and opening.

Those who couldn't go home often went back to their hometown once a year for the Lunar New Year holidays, which created an enormous homecoming crowd.

In 2013, the number of people moving during the spring season reached 3.4 billion as a couple.

However, the estimated number of people moving during the Chun-yun this year is estimated at 1.7 billion.

It is 56% of 3 billion people a year.

Train ticket reservations also decreased by nearly 60% compared to the previous year, and the number of railroad passengers nationwide during the spring season was estimated at 29.6 billion.

This is because of control measures to prevent the spread of Corona 19 again, which occurred in some provinces such as Hebei Province, Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, and Beijing.

Liu, who works for a company in Beijing, bought a train ticket to his hometown in Liaoning the day before the

, but eventually decided not to go.

It was okay until I had to have a nucleic acid test to go home.

However, when Beijing announced that everyone entering Beijing during the Chun-yun period should be monitored for two weeks and tested for nucleic acids twice, "is it too cumbersome, and if quarantine measures continue to be strengthened, it may be necessary to quarantine it at all." And gave up returning home.

The Chinese government recently announced the New Year quarantine regulations.

Corona 19 high-risk areas, where containment measures were imposed, minimize movement even within the area, and medium-risk areas are allowed to move with permission only in special cases.

He told me to refrain from going out in low-risk areas as much as possible.

People returning home to rural areas that have been recently designated as a corona 19 quarantine hole must bring a negative nucleic acid test certificate received within 7 days, and after returning home, they must stay home for 14 days and check their physical condition such as fever.

In addition to the aforementioned nucleic acid test, Beijing, which is set to hold China's largest political event in early March, has decided to prevent foreigners from entering the country by transferring directly to Beijing from a third country.

Government officials and employees of state-owned companies across the country were advised not to return home, asking them to take an example. An employee of a state-owned company said, "This is in fact an order and you should not go to another house to greet the New Year in your area."

However, the Chinese government is not unable to return home, and each local government has warned that excessive quarantine measures should not be taken in addition to the quarantine regulations.

As it is China's largest holiday, it is interpreted as taking into account that movement may be strongly controlled and public sentiment may be shaken.

Instead, we are mobilizing various media and media to launch a campaign called'就地過年' (Let's spend the Lunar New Year festival where we are).

Each local government has decided to properly receive overtime if you spend it working during the Lunar New Year, and provide various supplies.

In addition, various TV programs have been created, and policies to revitalize nearby tourist attractions have also been issued.

There are also direct incentives.

In the case of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, we have decided to pay 1,000 yuan and about 170,000 yuan of our money to foreign workers who do not return to their hometown.

Other cities, such as Tianjin and Hebei, pay different amounts but pay.

In addition, some regions do not allow rent during the Lunar New Year period and provide free mobile communication data.

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last year, the Lunar New Year festival was on January 25th, and Chunyun started on the 10th.

It was on December 31, 2019 when China informed outsiders that an unidentified pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan was outbreak.

However, the Chinese government insisted that the transmission of pneumonia from person to person has not been confirmed, and on the 19th, a super-large Lunar New Year event, attended by more than 40,000 families, was held in downtown Wuhan.

One day later, the chief authority on respiratory diseases in China, a Chinese engineer at Zhongnanshan, publicly warned that "there is human-to-human transmission", and three days later, an order to contain Wuhan was issued on the 23rd.

However, Corona 19 has spread throughout China as well as Hubei, where Wuhan is already located.

According to the Hong Kong media's Myungbo, the Chinese leadership from the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early January of last year said, "There is a high risk that pneumonia of unknown cause will spread through the respiratory tract, so quarantine measures must be taken immediately. Emergency quarantine posture should be raised to level 2," I received a report saying.

However, at the meeting of the Political Bureau Standing Committee, the highest meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, presided over by President Xi Jinping on January 7, the response to pneumonia was not the main agenda, and the'Central Leaders' said, "Pay attention to preventive measures, but this is overly fearful. I gave an instruction to "don't spoil the atmosphere of the coming Chinese New Year."

The leadership, who was not aware of the seriousness, made a mistaken judgment, which means that local governments such as Wuhan and Hubei provinces made easy responses.

The Chinese government, however, insisted that President Xi was actively leading the response from the beginning of the crisis, and held a grand medal award ceremony in September of last year, saying that he had made great achievements in the war on quarantine.

In China, Corona 19 is a mass outbreak in Hebei Province and Heilongjiang Province, and the number of new infections per day in the middle of this month has exceeded 200, but it has declined for three consecutive days and fell to 40 on the 27th.

The Chinese government is saying that it can stop the spread of Corona 19 with a strong and dense quarantine network.

China is carrying out strong containment, testing and quarantine of all nucleic acids in areas where Corona 19 has occurred, and is reprimanding those in charge.

However, as most of the causes of recent outbreaks have not been clearly identified, this Lunar New Year movement is expected to be the biggest step for re-proliferation.