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A Robust Recovery Underway

As China further optimized its COVlD-19 response measures,shifting the policy focus from infection prevention to severe cases prevention,the whole country began coming alive with renewed vitality.Soon after the policy shift,came the Lunar New Year,the most important festival for Chinese people.Before its arrival,markets warmed up and shopping festivals kicked off across the country to unleash the people’s pent-up consumption demands.The increasing traffic flow in almost every city of the country serves as a barometer for the bustling economic and social activities.

An AppIe Store fiIIed with customers in Xidan,Beijing,on December 30,2022.And a guide dog quietly waits for its master under a table.Yu Xiangjun

The 39th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival opens at the Harbin Ice and Snow World,the largest ice theme park in China,on January 5,2023,with the theme “celebrating 60 years of ice and snow culture while ushering in a new future.”

With the pandemic gradually being brought to an end,cars and people take to the streets again in Urumqi at midnight on December 8,2022.

The sharp increase of visitors to Wangfujing Pedestrian Street as seen on December 31,2022 helps revive the previously hustling and bustling street.Yu Xiangjun

As a wine town in Chongqing reopens to the public,tourists again have fun in its amusement facilities on December 8,2022.