The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. Going home to celebrate the New Year is not only a deep-rooted traditional custom, but also an emotional desire for people to spend time with relatives and relax after a hard year. But this year, under the influence of the new coronavirus epidemic, “whether to go home for the New Year” has become a question facing many people. Faced with the severe and complex winter epidemic prevention situation, “not returning home unless necessary” has become a new choice for the 2021 Spring Festival.
01 Local governments: Many places have launched heart-warming “gift packages”
As of now, the nationwide Many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have successively put forward the initiative of “celebrating the New Year on the spot”, and some areas have also launched free or related consumption coupons and New Year red envelopes for scenic spots. According to Li Wenxin, deputy general manager of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., the pre-sale of tickets before this year’s Spring Festival has dropped by nearly 60% compared with the same period in previous years. It is expected that the national railway passenger flow during the Spring Festival will be reduced to 296 million.
On February 1, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued another policy “gift package”, announcing that from February 1 to March 31, a special task of “welcoming the new year, stabilizing employment, and providing training” would be carried out across the country to encourage Employees who are on leave and stay in place participate in online and offline training and can enjoy multiple subsidies such as training, living expenses and transportation.
Beijing
On January 13, Beijing issued “On Stabilizing Labor Relations for Migrant Workers Staying in Beijing During the New Year” “Notice” pointed out that we will start from four perspectives: retaining people with care, retaining people with jobs, retaining people with salary, and retaining people with affection. On the premise of maintaining safety, we will encourage more orders, heavy production tasks, and uninterrupted needs. On the premise of resolutely safeguarding the bottom line of occupational safety, the employer negotiates and formulates plans for employees’ Spring Festival staggered holidays, flexible vacations, salary standards, etc., and implements employees’ legitimate rights and interests.
Beijing also announced that it will issue consumption coupons and ice and snow charity experience coupons to people celebrating the New Year in Beijing; starting from February 3, Beijing Unicom, Telecom, and Mobile users can receive them for each number 20G local free Internet traffic package. Foshan in Guangdong, Yiwu in Zhejiang, Kunshan in Jiangsu, Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, Guilin in Guangxi, Changsha in Hunan and other places issued various consumption vouchers for dining, shopping, travel and other items to foreign employees staying there for the New Year.
Zhejiang
Hangzhou: Hangzhou will give 1,000 yuan to each migrant worker in Hangzhou during the Spring Festival Cash red envelopes, “one-click direct access” to your personal bank account. Provide well-known specialties and have them delivered to your home, extend the return ticket subsidy period for employees staying in Hangzhou, provide points for migrant workers who cannot return to their hometown for reunion, and exchange them for a well-known Hangzhou specialty product and have it delivered to their home, and organize 200 migrant workers who stick to their posts during the holidays. Carry out one-day tours to Hangzhou employee (model worker) recuperation base, etc.
Ningbo Fenghua: Issued “Several Opinions on Doing a Good Job in Fenghua District Private Enterprises’ Retention of Migrant Workers in the City to Celebrate the Spring Festival”, through red envelope subsidies, tourism enjoyment, special consumption, Four major “Spring Festival gift packages” benefits, including online subsidies, encourage migrant workers to stay and celebrate the New Year.
Yunlong Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo: The local federation of trade unions and the town chamber of commerce jointly advocated that companies issue 666 yuan in new year’s red envelopes to employees outside the province who feel comfortable staying behind. Nearly 200 companies have responded so far. , 500,000 yuan left-behind red envelopes have been distributed.
Huzhou Xing: Free rent for tenants. Migrant people in cities cannot go home during the Spring Festival. In addition to feeling homesick emotionally, their actual expenses during the New Year are also likely to increase. In Changxing, Zhejiang Province, in order to encourage non-local employees to stay for the New Year, the local government launched the initiative of “if the tenant does not go home, the landlord will reduce the rent.”
Tongxiang: Eligible employees from outside the province will be issued with holiday consumption coupons in Tongxiang, with a maximum amount of 500 yuan; a number of public tourism resources in the city will be open to the public free of charge, and those who stay in Tongxiang Employees from outside the province can enter Tongxiang for free with their work permit, residence permit, citizen card, etc.; for foreign employees of enterprises who stay in Tongxiang for the New Year, their residence permit will have a one-time addition of 10 points in 2021 based on the original points. New and old employees who return to Tongli can receive a subsidy of 300 yuan to 1,000 yuan.
Taizhou City: Encourage companies to issue New Year red envelopes to employees, especially foreign employees who stay in Taizhou for the New Year. The government will support companies that issue New Year red envelopes to foreign employees who stay in Taizhou for the New Year. subsidy.
Shaoxing Keqiao District has launched “10 New Year benefits” for all New Keqiao residents, including watching movies happily, family gatherings in the auditorium, having fun in the New Year, and savoring nostalgia, etc. . In addition to launching activities to issue movie coupons, relevant departments in Keqiao District will also organize film screening teams to carry out special screening activities in enterprises, towns, villages and tourist attractions where people in New Keqiao are concentrated before and after the Spring Festival. The government and enterprises work together to create a sense of intimacy as a “second hometown” for Xinkeqiao people who stay in the factory.
Jiangsu
Suzhou and other places have made it clear that those who stayed between February 5 and 26 Non-resident employees of enterprises can get extra points when applying for points-based settlement and point-based admission in 2021.
The “Notice on Preventing and Controlling the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic During the New Year’s Day and Spring Festival of 2021” issued by Xiangcheng District, Suzhou proposes that enterprises will be subsidized for keeping photos during the festival. During the Spring Festival, if the company arranges for non-local employees to take photos, the company will be given a subsidy of 500 yuan per person; if the company arranges for non-local employees to work on the job, the company will be given a subsidy of 100 yuan per person per day. During the Spring Festival, projects with more than 100 people will receive an additional subsidy of 100,000 yuan.
Guangdong
Foshan Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Federation of Trade Unions, and Federation of Industry and Commerce jointly recommended”Our company actively responds to the call from our superiors and advocates that foreign employees stay in Chaonan and the company to celebrate the New Year. It is convenient for others and ourselves to not run around or cause trouble,” Zheng Linglong said.
In fact, company employees are not the only ones staying in Chaonan to celebrate the New Year. According to Zheng Guoyuan, Chief of the Construction and Management Section of the Chaonan District Printing and Dyeing Center, the Printing and Dyeing Center Management Committee, in accordance with the work arrangements of the district committee and district government, issued a notice on relevant work during the New Year’s Day and Spring Festival in 2021 and an epidemic prevention and control initiative. To implement, enterprises should actively encourage employees to choose to stay in the park and celebrate the New Year on the spot. “The person in charge of the enterprise and middle-level managers should also take the lead in staying in the park to celebrate the festival, so as not to leave Shantou unless necessary, never return to their hometown, and serve attentively without discounting.”
In the view of Hu Jiayang, executive deputy general manager of CITIC Environment (Shantou) Printing and Dyeing Environmental Protection Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd., “Celebrate the New Year on the spot” There are more advantages than disadvantages, and it is conducive to reducing gatherings, lowering the risk of infection, and easing the pressure of prevention and control. The advantage of “celebrating the New Year on the spot” is that the production equipment of printing and dyeing enterprises will not malfunction due to unattended maintenance. In addition, the Chinese New Year period is also a good time for employees to fully improve their skills. “Foreign employees can use this gap period to provide their own “Recharge your batteries’ and turn your longing for home and family into work motivation.”
Dongguan, Guangdong
According to reports, a well-known company in Houjie issued special allowances to employees who stayed at the factory during the Spring Festival: , employees enjoy a special allowance of 4,000 yuan in February and 1,000 yuan in March, with a total of up to 5,000 yuan for the two months. Another company will pay a Spring Festival allowance of 1,500 yuan to each employee who stays in Dongguan for the New Year. Netizens also said that their companies in Dongguan have corresponding subsidies.
Jinjiang, Fujian
“The company will continue to strengthen epidemic prevention and control to ensure the health and safety of employees. , to create an atmosphere for employees staying in the factory to celebrate the New Year, so that they can feel the flavor of the New Year in Jinjiang.” Recently, Ke Yongyuan, deputy to the Jinjiang Municipal People’s Congress and chairman of Jinjiang Yuanxiang Garment Weaving Co., Ltd., said that the company issued an internal New Year’s greeting card in December 2020 Liujin advocates that employees who stay in the factory to participate in production during the New Year will receive a subsidy of 800 yuan per person, double their wages, and 1.5 times their monthly salary.
The atmosphere of welcoming the New Year in Fujian Fengzhu Textile Technology Co., Ltd. is very strong. It is understood that Fengzhu Textile has introduced a series of policies this year to encourage employees to celebrate the New Year in the factory. Currently, the number of people staying in the factory has increased 2.5 times compared with the 2020 Spring Festival.
Wu Junxiong, deputy director of the finishing plant of Fengzhu Dyeing and Finishing Factory, said that Fengzhu Textile pays close attention to the national epidemic situation and the government’s joint prevention and control mechanism policies. For the personal safety of employees, After thinking about it, we started calling on employees to stay at the factory for the New Year a month ago and prepared supplies related to epidemic prevention.
Based on the situation of employees staying in the factory, Fengzhu Textile specially arranges for weaving factories, dyeing and finishing factories to not shut down production during the Spring Festival, and arranges jobs for employees who stay in the factory. In addition to normal wages for overtime workers, Each person can receive an additional overtime subsidy of 100 yuan/day to increase employees’ income while staying in the factory. In addition, during the holiday period from February 5th to February 18th, all employees can enjoy paid leave. “If you voluntarily stay and work overtime, in addition to enjoying multiple wages, you will also receive a daily living allowance of 15 yuan and an additional subsidy of 100 yuan, and you can also receive a 100 yuan New Year red envelope on New Year’s Eve.” Wu Junxiong believes that this is real. policy. </p
