One code for all travel across the country, do you need to be quarantined when returning home? The latest situation of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities is here!

The Spring Festival is coming soon. Are you planning to go home? The 2021 Spring Festival travel season will begin on January 28. At present, "whether nucleic acid testing is required when returning home from other places" and "whether centralized quarantine is required when returning home from medium- and high-risk areas" are topics of general concern. How to travel safely and smoothly during the Spring Festival travel season under the epidemic is related to everyone in the Spring Festival travel season.

On January 15, the 2021 National Spring Festival Travel Video and Telephone Conference was held in Beijing. "National Health Code One-Code Pass" and "Spring Festival Travel Passenger Flow Reduction" became the keywords that netizens paid attention to during the conference.

During the Spring Festival travel season, the country will implement a unified policy, unified standards, and national mutual recognition of health codes for epidemic prevention. The wide variety of health codes across the country has always been a "blocking point" for travel during the epidemic. Recently, a netizen said that when he made a health declaration at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, he found that there were as many as 28 health codes. Netizens have also been calling for the national unification of epidemic prevention health codes as soon as possible.

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Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at the national Spring Festival travel video and telephone conference that all regions should rely on the national integrated government affairs platform to implement the health code mutual recognition mechanism and rules, clarify that the health code information of cross-regional mobile personnel is credible and available in each region, and effectively guarantee the necessary travel needs of the people. National mutual recognition and one-code access are universal principles and requirements. Adding "codes" to "codes" is an exception and a special case. If there are indeed reasons that cannot be mutually recognized with other regions for the time being, they must be reported first. Therefore, the "national unification of epidemic prevention health codes" that everyone expects should be realized during the Spring Festival travel period.

The reduction in passenger flow, adjustments to the pre-sale period of Spring Festival travel tickets, and quarantine policies in various places are also the focus of attention of all parties.

Li Wenxin, deputy general manager of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., said, "The pre-sale of tickets before the Spring Festival has dropped by nearly 60% compared with the same period last year, and the national railway passenger flow during the Spring Festival is expected to drop to 296 million." This reflects that many people have chosen to "spend the Spring Festival where they are" and "not travel unless necessary."

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In response to the ever-changing epidemic situation, the pre-sale period and refund time for Spring Festival travel tickets have also been adjusted.

Starting from the sale of tickets for February 12, 2021 (the first day of the first lunar month), the railway ticket pre-sale period will be adjusted to 15 days. After the adjustment, tickets for February 12, 2021 (the first day of the first lunar month) will be sold from January 29. From January 14 to January 28, only tickets for February 11 (New Year's Eve) and before will be sold.

With the adjustment of the ticket purchase policy, the issue of whether one can go home for the Spring Festival has aroused heated discussion among netizens. "I understand the difficulties of epidemic prevention and control, but I still want to go home for the New Year." "I am still struggling with whether to buy a ticket to go home." "The epidemic prevention measures in different places are different. I want to know whether I need nucleic acid testing and quarantine when I go home." Some netizens also suggested "choosing to 'spend the New Year where I am' to be responsible for myself and my family."

At present, all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country have introduced quarantine policies for returning home. The policies vary from place to place, but all require people returning home from medium- and high-risk areas to be quarantined and undergo nucleic acid testing.

The Spring Festival travel rush is a "big test" for the current epidemic prevention and control, and epidemic prevention and control should be put at the top of the work during the Spring Festival travel rush. At the same time, epidemic prevention and control during the Spring Festival travel rush must be precise and scientific, and "excessive prevention and control" should not be allowed, and travel should be convenient for the people.

For epidemic prevention and safety, many people responded to the call and chose to "spend the New Year on the spot". Whether they decided to stay at their work place to "spend the New Year on the spot" or headed home, what remains unchanged is the strong homesickness and the earnest expectation of protecting health. May everyone have a safe and healthy Spring Festival!

Co-produced by: Xinhuanet Sike Xinhuanet 5G Rich Media Lab

Planning: Liu Juan

Producer: Li Xiaoyun Tang Hui

Author: Xie Yipeng and Shu Kefan Editor: Huang Jiexin

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