The first day of the first lunar month is Spring Festival, the beginning of a new year for China. Spring Festival for the Year of the Ox falls on Thursday.

Spring Festival is China's biggest extravaganza and a day for family reunion. Being around family members at the turn of the year is a vital ritual for the Chinese people.

The traditional customs of spring festival include buying New Year decorations such as red lanterns, Chinese knots, and couplets as the Chinese Lunar New Year approaches. The central attraction of the festival are “New Year's Eve dinner “and people give red envelopes filled with money, known as hongbao, to friends and relatives during Lunar New Year celebrations.

A number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and clusters have been reported in some parts of China of late, revealing the loopholes in the pandemic prevention and control measures especially in rural areas. Against this backdrop, the Spring Festival travel rush could drastically increase the number of infections.

Keeping these facts in mind, the government has tightened the prevention and control measures, and local authorities in many places have asked people to stay where they work during the Spring Festival holiday to avoid infection. Some local governments have even unveiled plans to give people, especially migrant workers, special subsidies－something like hongbao (red envelopes with money) gifted during Spring Festival－to persuade them to not travel during the holiday.

As the biggest festival in China, Spring Festival usually sees the world's largest human migration as people across the country travel back home to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with family and friends. This year, according to the Ministry of Transport, about 1.7 billion passenger trips are expected to be made during the festival travel rush, but now the figure may shrink rapidly.

Under the epidemic prevention and control situation of "Celebrating the Spring Festival on the spot" and "reducing mobility" advocated by the whole country, the biggest difference between the Spring Festival transportation in 2021 and previous years is the significant reduction in the number of passengers. According to the data of the Spring Festival special class of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, since January 28, the number of daily passengers has been about 18 million, a year-on-year decrease of about 70%.

The difference between this year's Spring Festival and previous years is that epidemic prevention and control has become the top priority.

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