After Hong Kong switched to “0+3” quarantine, citizens who have been hungry for a long time have packed up to travel abroad, and many young people have even launched Working Holidays. During the “11th Golden Week”, alternative “working holiday” opportunities also appeared in the mainland. A large number of tourists were stranded in Xinjiang under “city closures”. The local government arranged for them to “stay in Xinjiang to work”, and implemented tourism into local work to build a frontier for the motherland. , it is especially meaningful to coincide with the National Day. Jokes aside, the fact is that during this golden week, as many as 422 million people traveled from the mainland, and even Hainan Province, which had just “unblocked”, was also crowded with people. As a result, the province started “static management” after the outbreak of the epidemic , so that the passengers once again “squatted”. Why do people still take the risk of being “blocked” to travel? This just confirms the resilience of China’s tourism, consumer market and overall economy.
It is said that the epidemic rebounded in Xinjiang during the Golden Week, and there are nearly 100 confirmed cases every day. Local Urumqi Tianshan District Party Secretary Li Shaozhong, Gaochang District Party Secretary Zhu Jianjun, Shuimogou District Party Secretary Song Bin and other “three district leaders” have been ineffective in fighting the epidemic. dismissed. At the same time, Xinjiang has implemented “temporary global static management” since last Tuesday. Most of the buses, trains and planes departing from Xinjiang have been cancelled, and a large number of tourists during the Golden Week are stranded. It is unknown when they will be able to return home.
Help the stranded people find employment and attract netizens to associate
During a press conference on epidemic prevention and control last Thursday, Ding Zhijun, head of the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone, mentioned that stranded foreign tourists can consider “staying in Xinjiang for employment.” . As soon as this statement came out, it immediately set off a heated discussion on the Internet. At first, many people worry that this means that Xinjiang does not know when to “unblock”, and the local government needs to arrange for tourists to stay and work. Furthermore, Xinjiang, as China’s frontier, has always had a tradition of pioneering. For example, in the 1950s, “eight thousand Hunan women went to the Tianshan Mountains.” In recent years, the so-called “forced labor” has been circulated.
For example, some people have “brain holes” and suspect that Xinjiang’s move is “invitation to the urn”. First, the Zhongmen gate is opened to welcome tourists, and then it is forbidden to leave Xinjiang, and guide them to stay in Xinjiang for employment. The types of work include grape picking and cotton production, so as to fill the labor shortage. . There are also netizens who “re-created” this policy. It is rumored that in addition to working in Xinjiang, tourists will be matched with partners by the local government to help them start a family and establish a family. Boys” one-stop service.
Facing rumors flying all over the sky, the Xinjiang government issued a clarification late at night on Saturday (8th), saying that some online media “misinterpreted (the policy) original meaning and caused misunderstandings”, emphasizing that the government’s policy is mainly aimed at migrant workers among the stranded tourists, collecting their employment If you are interested, you can contact related companies on your behalf to provide job opportunities such as circuit, welding, cook, wood tiler and so on.
In other words, the Xinjiang government does suggest that stranded tourists consider local employment and is willing to provide assistance, but it is purely out of good intentions and is entirely voluntary. It is a moral policy to prevent some tourists from “stopping their mouths” during their stay. . As for other claims on the Internet, they are just rumors and nothing to do with it.
In fact, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, during the 7-day holiday during the Golden Week holiday this year, the number of mainland tourists (including inter-provincial, inter-city and suburban travel) reached 422 million. With the recent resurgence of the epidemic and the “closed-and-controlled management” in many places across the country, this figure still brings surprises.
Chinese flock to travel permits for tourism resilience
Just as Hainan Province once “closed the whole province” in August this year, resulting in a large number of summer vacation tourists staying for more than 7 days and being forced to “hard eat” sky-high hotel fees. Travel and avoid “going to prison”. Unexpectedly, after a lapse of less than two months, the scars were healed and the pain was forgotten. This year, Hainan Province once again ushered in a lively scene during the Golden Week of the 11th November, with a total of 1.33 million foreign tourists. The most unfortunate thing is that the epidemic broke out again in Hainan Province during the Golden Week. Haikou, the provincial capital, started temporary global static management since last Thursday, which once again caused a large number of tourists to be stranded.
In addition to Xinjiang and Hainan, tourist destinations such as Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guangxi were also full of people during the Golden Week. Many passengers also encountered “point-spotting”, and many hard-fought advocates shouted. Xishuangbanna Airport even dispatched “gun-wielding big whites” to stop the passengers from protesting.
It is worth noting that now everyone knows that mainland local governments are frequently closing cities for “dynamic clearing”. In particular, there was a living lesson of “sealing tourists” in Hainan Province in August, but why there are still so many during the Golden Week 422 million passengers are willing to take risks?
After all, like Hong Kong people, they have been “traveling hungry” for 3 years, and people in the mainland are also puzzled and helpless. Besides, many of them have experienced long-term lockdowns in the cities where they live. It is rare to have a 7-day holiday during Golden Week. . Furthermore, as the author pointed out in the article “Chinese Are Getting Richer” earlier, the average savings in mainland personal bank accounts increased by about 10,000 yuan in the first half of this year, an unprecedented increase. This shows that although the epidemic has hit the economy hard, Chinese people have always “loved saving money”. Many people have a wealth of wealth and are able to spend. The only question is whether they have the opportunity. It’s not an exaggeration to spend thousands of yuan on a trip during the Golden Week, but I didn’t expect to step on the thunder.
This also highlights that China’s consumer market and the overall economy have always been resilient. If “excessive epidemic prevention” can be avoided in the next few months, and with the wholesale sales of domestic new crown medicines, the closure and control measures will be gradually eased, so that people can regain confidence in the future. The outbreak of “retaliatory consumption”. At that time, various provinces and cities can launch a real “Domestic Working Holiday” policy to attract young people to travel and work in different provinces. If you have fun, you may wish to settle down, stimulate consumption and supplement the population and boost the labor force. If the Hong Kong government wants to “snatch talents”, it may try to expand the “tourism holiday” measures.