Alipay's practical Spring Festival functions: write blessing characters, check epidemic situation, and watch New Year short films

The Spring Festival is approaching, but the originally joyful and peaceful atmosphere has been ruined by sporadic outbreaks in various places. Especially those who are preparing to go home for the New Year are beginning to be confused. How to go? When to go? How to get the nucleic acid test certificate ? ... A lot of questions are coming. Fortunately, the Internet is well developed now, and you can use Alipay to arrange things in advance while sitting at home. So please keep this guide to going home for the Spring Festival in 2021!

1. Return policy enquiry

Not long ago, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued the latest instructions for returning home during the Spring Festival, which specifically marked the definition of returnees, whether they need to be quarantined after returning home, the time limit for nucleic acid test results, and who will check these certificates, etc. Due to different situations in different places, the specific implementation depends on the actual situation in the local area.

So the question is, how can you check the latest policies in your location and hometown?

▲ Search for "return home quarantine policy"

Open Alipay, search for "return home quarantine policy", and then click "return home quarantine policy - nationwide" at the bottom of the pop-up interface. The entire interface is a bit like the ticket buying software we often use. The left side is the departure city, and the right side is the destination city. The platform will automatically collect risk level assessments of various places and the latest return home policy descriptions. Just check before going out, and you will basically have an idea.

▲ Search destination city

One good thing about this tool is that I think it can list "traffic control" information. If a certain area has temporarily controlled traffic due to the epidemic, it will be marked below (no control area will not be marked). It details the control measures for different means of transportation such as self-driving, cars, trains, and airplanes when entering and leaving the country. After understanding it, you can coordinate your travel method more reasonably.

▲ If there is traffic control at the destination, it will be listed directly

At the bottom is the epidemic report, which can mark the epidemic information of the destination city in real time, which is very convenient.

▲ At the bottom of the page is the latest epidemic report of the destination city

2. Where to get nucleic acid testing

If you want to go home, there is one issue that you cannot avoid no matter what, and that is nucleic acid testing. As we all know, nucleic acid test certificates are time-limited (7 days), and there are many people returning home during the Spring Festival, which is bound to cause a large number of tests, which requires an appointment in advance.

▲ On-site testing is expensive and has more restrictions

Still on the page above, click "Nucleic Acid Test Appointment", there are two options: door-to-door testing and offline testing. Among them, door-to-door testing only supports large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shanghai, and there are more restrictions on costs, distance, etc. Offline testing requires the person being tested to go to the testing point by himself, but the cost is lower and the time arrangement is more flexible. The testing points here are all associated with electronic maps, so you can navigate directly to them.

▲ There are many more options for offline testing, and the cost is much cheaper

In addition to Alipay, common electronic maps such as Amap have also added nucleic acid testing agency searches. Compared with Alipay, the advantage is that you can intuitively find the nearest testing point based on your location. However, most map search results do not support appointments, and you have to go somewhere else to complete them after finding them. In short, both methods have their advantages and disadvantages, and can be combined in actual use.

▲ The display of map APP is more intuitive, but most of them do not support online reservations

3. Collection of nucleic acid test certificate

At present, the results of most nucleic acid testing institutions in China can be issued in electronic form (query from Alipay orders or the public account of the testing institution). In addition, your own health code will automatically synchronize the test results, thus avoiding the time and exposure risks brought by going to the hospital to collect it. Of course, if the testing institution you go to does not support electronic reports, you will have to go again (of course, the probability of this is still quite small), so it is best to ask the staff during the test, which is safer.

▲ Most test reports can be queried electronically or automatically synchronized to personal health codes

4. Write the word "Fu" yourself without returning home

There is a very popular thing on Alipay these days, called "Handwritten Fu Character", and many friends have played it. As the name suggests, it means "handwriting" a Fu character, and then letting Alipay print it out for free. Many people are worried that their handwriting is not good, but it doesn't matter. In addition to being able to give full play to it, Alipay also provides several ready-made "Fu characters" for copying, and the final effect is still pretty good!

▲ Write the word "Fu" yourself

However, perhaps too many people knew about this activity in the past two days, and the daily free print quota was always snapped up early. Fortunately, we still have a second option, which is to save this "Fu" character and then print it out with a printer. Currently, Alipay has provided high-resolution image storage, and it can be used on both PC and mobile phones, which is quite convenient. Buy a few blank Fu paper online, and in a few minutes, you can use the "Fu" character you wrote yourself!

▲ Can't get the free blessing character? You can try saving it and printing it yourself

5. Tear-jerking New Year movies are released first

Going home for the New Year is of great significance to every Chinese, and the Lunar New Year holiday during the Spring Festival every year has naturally become the most indispensable "New Year's Eve dinner". From "What's Peppa Pig?" two years ago to "Where Have You Been?" last year, one after another heartwarming short films have touched the hearts of countless Chinese people. Recently, a Lunar New Year short film called "Wang" has also quietly become popular on the Internet. I won't say much about the plot, open Alipay, search for "Wu Fu Movie" and go watch it!

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▲ This year's Lunar New Year short film - "Wang"

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▲ This year's Lunar New Year video

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▲ This year's Lunar New Year video

Final Thoughts

Every year, the Spring Festival has many new elements. This year, due to the epidemic, many people may not be able to go home for the Spring Festival. But no matter where you are, your heart is always connected with your family. In 2021, let's cheer together!