Lunar New Year falls amid a COVID surge and hard financial times in China

By Emily Feng

Published January 22, 2023 at 7:00 AM CST

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People in China will make about two billion trips throughout January for the Lunar New Year — the first without travel restrictions since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Emily Feng is NPR's Beijing correspondent.

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