Year of the Ox
In Chinese culture, the Ox is a valued animal because of its role in agriculture where it is appreciated for its positive characteristics of being hardworking and honest. Oxen are seen as the hard workers who stay in the background, and are intelligent and reliable while never demanding praise. Many believe that the Year of the Ox 2021 will be a good year for China.
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3/21-23 LAX-Guangzhou
The Chinese consulate issued this personal health code valid for travel to China; to apply you must have had a negative COVID test 72 hours prior to travel; the green code means “passed,” an OK for the trip to China.
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China Southern Airlines Airbus A380 flight is 70% full. This means more and more people are able to fly back to China, mostly students who have been studying in the U.S.
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Throughout the duration of the flight, I wear protective eye goggles; some people even wear PPE for absolute safety.
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For safety, no catering during the 14-hour flight, only a snack bag.
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Flight attendants wearing PPE and checking passengers’ body temperature during the flight.
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We've arrived at Guangzhou airport, and are now waiting for the medical declaration.
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Medical declaration with airport health officials.
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Notice that every international passenger needs to go through a 14-day quarantine before they are free to go (for some places like Beijing 21 days are required.
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Welcome to Guangzhou!
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U.S. Activism Books to China
Brought several dozen U.S. activism books for gifts in China
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3/23-4/6 My 14-Day Quarantine Life in Hotel
Upon arriving in China, we were sent directly to the quarantine hotel. We pay for a 14-day stay to live under lockdown observation in the hotel room (we cannot go anywhere), one person per room (could be a bit costly). We have our temperature checked twice a day, and COVID tests every five days. I ordered online takeout food everyday (highly efficient and cheaper then the hotel catering). I stay focused, work hard and every day I jog 4 miles in the room.
Daily jogging 6KM (4 miles) in this small space.
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We cannot leave the room; each door has a chair outside in the hall. The hotel staff will bring the deliveries and leave them on the chair.
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Chinese popular online food order app
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The hotel staff will bring the delivery and leave it on the chair at the door
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Highly efficient online orders during the quarantine hotel stay, such as equipment, books and toothpaste.
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Temperature checks twice per-day by the hotel medical team.
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Reading activism books brought from the U.S.
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Prepare for a Zoom meeting (although I’d missed most of them due to the time difference between U.S. and China).
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Everyday I order online takeout food from the app at the quarantine hotel.
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My personal health code in China, red code means “not-passed.” During my 14 days of quarantine my code will remain red; until I complete the quarantine and am discharged from the hotel, it won’t change to green to enable me to travel freely anywhere.
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Vaccinations
China launched the world's first mass vaccination campaign; it was begun last fall, ahead of every other country. It significantly slowed down during the Chinese New Year month in February and March, when it was surpassed by the U.S.; but beginning in late March it picked up speed again with 4-7 million shots per day (compare with 2.5 million jabs/day in the U.S.). Eventually China will reach 10 million shots a day, far more then the U.S.; they aim to vaccinate 70% of their population (approximately 1 billion people) by end of June.
At the end of March, Ruili – the Chinese southwestern border town near Myanmar, had a small COVID outbreak. The local government quickly organized the COVID vaccination campaign for all 300,000 residents within 5 days in early April.
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A new state-of-the-art mobile vaccination bus in China, to serve the people who don’t have time to go to the vaccination center.
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Daily Chinese news coverage about vaccination campaigns taking place around the country.
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Daily Chinese news coverage about vaccination campaigns around the country, the daily vaccine production has risen from 1.5 million doses on February1st to 5 million/day doses by the end of March, and will further increase to support China’s goal of 10 million shots per day with additional doses for exports to the world.
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Local government’s centralized app for making COVID shot appointments.
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