A New Year Shopping Guide

If people’s memory of how they celebrated the Chinese New Year could be compiled into a book, the chapters for 2020 and 2021 would present a striking contrast.

In 2020, people stayed at home to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. But this year, they remained at their places of work to minimize the risk of resurgence of infections from large-scale migration and consolidate epidemic control.

For Wang Yu, a programmer with a Beijing-based Internet company, this Spring Festival on February 12 was the first time in 29 years since his birth that he stayed in another place instead of his hometown in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north