Table 1 Specific policies of each province (region) on ‘local new year’.

Ningxia

Yinchuan

The government discouraged people from going on business trips or travelling unnecessarily, and encouraged people to spend the new year’s holiday locally.

Guangdong

Zhongshan

Enterprises encouraged employees to celebrate the Spring Festival locally, and entrepreneurs were advised to take the lead in organising an enjoyable ‘local new year’ for employees, and form a consensus that ‘it is not necessary to leave Guangdong’.

Guangxi

Pingxiang

Issued the ‘ten uniform’ notice, emphasising that as the end of the New Year was approaching, stores, shops should reduce personnel flow and advocate assistants to celebrate ‘local new year’ or online New Year.

Hebei

Zhangjiakou (Economic development zone)

All cadres and staff of the Party and government organisations, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises in the region were instructed spend the Spring Festival in local area. Further, they were instructed not to travel to high-risk areas or leave the local area. Functional departments of the region were instructed to ensure the guarantee of water, electricity, gas, communication, and heating to improve the supply capacity of daily necessities, pandemic prevention materials and drugs.

Beijing

The government will strengthen market monitoring of daily necessities to ensure price stability and adequate supply, expand the supply of public culture, enrich people’s festive cultural life, and improve the quality of life services and humanistic care for students, teachers and migrant workers in Beijing.

Zhejiang

Ningbo

The enterprise will grant special subsidies to employees of non-Ningbo enterprises. The standard subsidy is 100 Yuan per person per day, and the maximum subsidy per person will be 500 Yuan.

Shanghai

Foreign cadastral personnel will receive a one-time subsidy of 700 Yuan for ‘as gift for stay in Shanghai and overcoming living difficulties’.

Fujian

Xiamen

During the Spring Festival, each person who stays in Xiamen without household registration will be provided 50 Yuan in cash, and those who work in service industry will be provided a subsidy of 50 Yuan per day.

Jiangsu

Suzhou (Xiangcheng District)

The enterprise will provide 500 Yuan subsidy to each foreign employee who stays in Xiangcheng. During the Spring Festival, enterprises should rent dormitories, blue-collar apartments and talent apartments for foreign employees to live in, with half a month’s rent reduced.