China News Agency, Beijing, December 29. Question: The first double festival of the new stage of epidemic prevention is approaching. How does China answer the question of "personnel flow"?

　　China News Agency reporter Li Chun

　　During the Spring Festival in the past two years, Xiao Ma, who worked hard in Beijing, never returned to his hometown in Zhejiang.

After a series of adjustments to China's epidemic prevention and control policy, Xiao Ma plans to go home for the New Year this Spring Festival, spend more time with family members, visit relatives and friends, and gather with brothers and sisters.

As a "chosen worker", she also admitted frankly that she was worried that she would become "sunshine" during the journey back to her hometown.

　　For the Chinese, the New Year's Day and Spring Festival in 2023 are a bit special. This is the first double festival that China has ushered in after entering a new stage of epidemic prevention and control.

On December 8, at Beijing West Railway Station, passengers did not need to show nucleic acid certificates and health codes, and directly entered the station to board the train.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yi Haifei

　　On the one hand, after the introduction of twenty optimization measures and further optimization measures of the "New Ten", China has decided to adjust the new crown virus infection to "Class B and B control" from January 8, 2023.

The cross-regional flow of people has ushered in more convenient conditions, and the public's willingness to travel has accelerated, and the total passenger flow may increase significantly during the double festival.

　　Take the recent topic of "'Yangkang' flocking to Sanya" circulating on the Internet as an example. According to related reports, the occupancy rate of hotels in Sanya has increased significantly recently, and some hotels have been full of rooms many times.

Some local homestay owners also said that all the houses during the Spring Festival have been booked out.

　　In this context, how to make long-term low-load transportation quickly adapt to changes in passenger flow, operate smoothly, and ensure the safety and smooth travel of the public is the first question of the "flow of people" during the double festival.

　　On the other hand, the current epidemic situation of the new coronavirus in China is still running at a high level, and many places predict that the peak of the epidemic is coming.

With the rapid increase in the number of infected people, some places are facing enormous pressure on medical treatment.

　　In an interview with the media on the afternoon of December 29, Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the prevalence of all infectious diseases will spread as long as there is movement of people.

The more frequent, faster, and longer the movement of people, the faster and more frequent the spread.

　　How to avoid the possible expansion of the epidemic caused by large-scale movement of people is the second question of the question of "movement of people" during the Double Festival.

　　How to scientifically and cautiously answer the question of "personnel flow" during the double festival?

Many levels in China have already begun to write.

　　On the official level, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council recently issued a notice to deploy relevant work during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival in 2023, which proposed to adapt to changes in passenger flow and supply capacity, strengthen passenger transport guarantees in hotspot areas, routes, and time slots, and optimize transportation Convergence and passenger transfer, strengthen road congestion and smoothness, and reduce passenger congestion and gathering.

　　The Ministry of Transport also issued a notice requiring all localities to no longer check negative nucleic acid test certificates and health codes for passengers, no longer carry out landing inspections, and no longer implement temperature measurement.

The notice issued on December 29 made it clear again that starting from January 8 next year, the temperature measurement requirements for passengers entering and exiting passenger stations and taking public transportation will be cancelled.

　　The 2023 Spring Festival Transport will start on January 7, and relevant optimization and adjustment measures will be implemented in the transportation sector from January 8.

Some people believe that this is a timely and pragmatic move to minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development and provide convenience for people to travel and return home during the double festival.

　　Many places in China are also deploying in advance, using the current "window period" to actively respond to the pressure of epidemic prevention and control that may be brought about by the movement of people during the double festival.

　　On December 26, the Heilongjiang Provincial Leading Group for Responding to the New Crown Epidemic and the Provincial Headquarters video conference pointed out that in view of the recent increase in the number of infections and the increase in the flow of people during the Spring Festival and other new situations and new changes, it is necessary to prepare material reserves, capacity reserves, and emergency plans in advance. We will implement various work measures for epidemic prevention and control in detail, and make every effort to win the tough battle of epidemic prevention and control in the new stage.

　　Ye Jianchun, governor of Jiangxi Province, pointed out at the meeting of the provincial epidemic prevention and control emergency headquarters on the 27th that the large-scale return of comprehensive evaluators to their hometowns brings challenges to rural epidemic prevention and control work, and seize the opportunity to do practical and detailed work. We will do our best to protect the health of the rural people, so that the farmers, especially those who have returned to their hometowns, can reunite in a healthy way and celebrate the festival safely.

　　The Chinese government issued a work plan on the 27th, requiring that people visiting relatives go home for the New Year and return to work in an orderly manner.

All localities can explore the implementation of flexible vacation and off-peak vacation policies to reduce the pressure on the public to travel intensively.

In some places, people are also encouraged to return to their hometowns on a staggered peak and travel away from the peak to calm the peak of the epidemic.

　　Wu Zunyou said that there will be a large number of people moving during the Spring Festival travel in China, adding to the risk of respiratory infectious diseases in winter, making the epidemic situation more complicated.

All localities are doing a good job in monitoring, analyzing, researching and judging information about the epidemic situation, minimizing the impact of the epidemic peak and minimizing the impact of the epidemic on work and life.

　　For ordinary people, the best thing they can do is to maintain personal protective measures.

The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently reminded that when returning home on New Year's Day and Spring Festival, when taking planes, trains, subways, buses and other means of transportation, it is necessary to wear masks and pay attention to personal protection such as hand hygiene.

　　Xiao Ma also said that she plans to buy a high-speed rail ticket directly to her hometown, and return home with the shortest journey. She will wear an N95 mask throughout the journey and carry some alcohol disinfection wipes with her.

As for whether she will buy boxed lunches on the train, she told a reporter from China News Agency: "I won't eat it, so as not to take off my mask." (End)