Editor’s Note:
This Spring Festival holidays were particularly special for people in China and beyond – it was the first holiday after China announced the downgrading of COVID-19 management from a Class A to Class B infectious disease in early January.
How did people spend the holidays? On the journey going back to their hometowns across China, the Global Times reporters extensively learned about how the Spring Festival was celebrated in different parts of the country, in big cities, small towns, villages, and hometowns of overseas Chinese nationals.
The Global Times is publishing a series of stories, under the theme of “Hometown Witness,” to record what the reporters have seen in different parts of China, as well as to illustrating Chinese people’s life after three years of fighting against the epidemic.
In this installment, we follow several reporters to visit their hometowns in rural China, to investigate how rural areas combat infections with relatively modest medica