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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Chinese Travel for Lunar New Year Despite Plea to Stay Put

Travelers wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 line up for trains at a station in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province, Friday, January 28, 2022. (AP)

Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest family holiday, despite a government plea to stay where they are as Beijing tries to contain coronavirus outbreaks.

The holiday, which starts with Chinese New Year's Eve on Monday, usually is the biggest annual movement of humanity as hundreds of millions of people who migrated for work visit their parents and sometimes spouses and children they left behind or travel abroad.

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