It's the Year of the Black Water Rabbit in China

CHINA celebrated the New Year according to the lunar calendar - according to it, 2023 is the year of the black water rabbit. In China, this day is also called the Spring Festival.

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The country is hosting the Spring Festival for the first time since the pandemic, The Global Times notes. One of the most significant events within its framework is a gala concert. Songs, traditional dances were performed on it, a kung fu show was shown.

The Global Times notes that many Chinese people decided to travel somewhere during the holiday period, for many it was a chance to reunite with loved ones. The publication cites data from the Ministry of Transport, according to which the passenger traffic expected during the spring tourist season will be more than 2 billion people, which is about 70% of the pre-pandemic 2019 figure.

Xinhua reported that Chinese President Xi Jinping, addressing fellow citizens on the eve of the holiday, noted that the past year was difficult in terms of "internal reform, development and stability", as well as turbulent in the context of international events. The HEAD of state emphasized that 2023 will be the first year when the implementation of the guidelines of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China will begin. It passed in November 2022.

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In the last month of 2022, China began to move away from the policy of "zero tolerance" for CORONAVIRUS - that is, severe restrictions in connection with covid-19 . After that, during the period from December 8 to January 12, 60 thousand people died from coronavirus in the country, the National HEALTH Commission reported. At the same time, Western media wrote that a new serious outbreak of the disease had begun in the country. For example, BLOOMBERG reported that almost 250 million people in China were infected with COVID-19 in December.

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