China’s service sector recovery takes another hit as new coronavirus outbreaks cast pall over Lunar New Year consumption, travel Orange Wang and Amanda Lee orange.wang@scmp.com, amanda.lee@scmp.com Very few passengers wait to board trains at a station in southwest China’s Guizhou province on Thursday as the world’s largest annual human migration begins with considerably fewer trips expected. Photo: Xinhua
The Lunar New Year holiday, popularly known in China as the Spring Festival, traditionally results in hundreds of millions of workers in big cites returning to their hometowns, spending large sums of money on food, gifts and travel.