As the Spring Festival approached, shops along the street gradually closed down, and the bustling provincial city that was once lively and prosperous seemed to wither like flowers and trees entering autumn and winter in the blink of an eye.
That's just how it is in China; the more prosperous the city, the more desolate it becomes during the Spring Festival.
If you happen to walk alone on the street on New Year's Eve, you might feel like you're in a ghost town.
So the focus of the various departments' work is mainly the homecoming tide just before New Year's Eve and the wave of migrant workers returning after the Spring Festival.
The period in between ends up being much more leisurely.
This year marked Wu Qiangwei's first Spring Festival after coming to Jiangzhou. She didn't have experience governing a provincial capital like Jiangzhou, so initially, she was in a state of high alert, afraid that large crowds at the train stations would linger, causing a stampede.
