Global Times: So much better than we had anticipated : China s rural regions embrace Spring Festival as COVID peak ebbs away streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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
Unlike some Western media reports that predicted China’s rural areas and small cities would see mass infections following the Spring Festival holidays, the Global Times learned from different localities that the numbers of positive cases have been largely declining during the holidays while some third- and fourth-tier cities have already passed peak infections.
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The shortlisted entries for the 2022 World Architecture Festival have been selected from hundreds of entries from more than 50 countries around the world.