Millions of Chinese workers on the move ahead of Friday travel peak


Passengers wait to board trains at Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station during the annual Spring Festival travel rush ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year on Jan 18, 2023. - Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters): Millions of urban workers were on the move across China on Wednesday ahead of the expected Friday peak of its Lunar New Year mass migration, as China's leaders looked to get its Covid-battered economy moving.

Unfettered when officials last month ended three years of some of the world's tightest Covid-19 restrictions, workers streamed into railway stations and airports to head to smaller towns and rural homes, sparking fears of a broadening virus outbreak.

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