Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Signals Return to the Mao Era
Analysis
April 4, 2021, Easter Day, was the same day as the Ching Ming Festival in China, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, the day when the Chinese honor ancestors and families gather to pay respect to the dead. On this day, the Chinese regime quietly opened the grave of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing, but blocked that of former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who stepped down because of his opposition to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. This opening of one and closing of another released an important political signal.
1 2021-04-09 10:36:21chinadaily.com.cn
Editor : Li Yan
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China s travel industry bounced back to pre-coronavirus level by some metrics over the three-day Tomb Sweeping Day, or Qingming, Festival, from Saturday to Monday, Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
During this holiday, Chinese travelers made 102 million trips, more than double that of the same period a year earlier and equivalent to 94.5 percent of trips over the holiday in 2019, according to China s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Travel bookings via Trip.com, China s largest travel-booking site, over the holiday quadrupled compared with a year earlier, the company said, as reported by the Journal.
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About 100,000 people visited the iconic Terracotta Warriors in northwest China s Shaanxi Province during the three-day Tomb-sweeping Day holiday, local authorities said on Tuesday.
A total of 97,324 visitors came to Emperor Qinshihuang s Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi an, the provincial capital, to catch a glimpse of the famous army of Terracotta Warriors during the holiday that ended Monday.
The number of visitors reached 67 percent of that during the period before the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak.
Due to epidemic control measures, tourists were required to book tickets online and make appointments to visit prior to arrival.
The museum also updates information on exhibitions via its official website on its social media accounts on WeChat and Weibo.
NetsUnion, the Chinese online payment clearinghouse, and China UnionPay, a card payment giant, on Tuesday, reported higher payments during the 2021 Tomb-sweeping Day holiday as people splurged on travel, catering, and accommodations.
During the three-day holiday that concluded on Monday, combined remittance on the two platforms reached 3.55 trillion yuan (about 541.76 billion U.S. dollars).
NetsUnion processed 4.62 billion online payment transactions worth 2.65 trillion yuan during the holiday, up by 34.26 percent and 48.86 percent, respectively, year on year. The two figures are both record highs compared with previous Tomb-sweeping Day holidays.
China UnionPay meanwhile reported transactions to the tune of 903.6 billion yuan, up by 3.6 percent.