This Spring Festival holiday was an especially happy one for Bai Changli, an employee of a pharmaceutical company in Jinan, Shandong Province, as pandemic control measures and work had kept him from reuniting with his family during the previous three Spring Festivals.
This year’s official Spring Festival holiday lasted from February 10 to 17, one day more than previous years.
On February 8, Bai, his wife, their 2-year-old daughter and his mother who looks after her in Jinan made the more than 1,500-km high-speed-rail journey home to Yuzhong County in Lanzhou, Gansu Province.
His grandparents and father welcomed