Continental Center / Report by Chen Ciling 【Posted at 10:02 on 11/30｜ Updated at 12:40: Added audio and video】
▲ A large number of students left Guangzhou overnight, suspecting they could not buy tickets, and were forced to sleep at the station. (Image / flip from Weibo)
After the “white paper revolution” broke out in China, all parts of China responded to the concepts of “democracy and freedom” and “Xi Jinping stepped down”, and in many places people can be seen “advocating a white book”. However, in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, facing the situation of possible “global lockdown”, many schools suddenly asked all students to quit school last night (29), resulting in absurd scenes of students carrying luggage and crowding roads, including highways. there were many traffic jams and there was also the dilemma of not being able to catch a bus at the station. Many people were forced to live on the ground. The image of students sleeping on the street immediately spread across the Internet, which was quite unbearable.
According to Twitter “Ms. Li is not your teacher” andWeibo messageIt shows that last night in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China, many students, including colleges and universities, received sudden requests from the school to leave school. As a result, the streets near the school were crowded with students and vehicles, and even the station was packed with people eager to go home. Also, as students received requests to go home “unannounced”, many people hurried away with a suitcase, and the picture appeared quite chaotic.
▲ A large number of students left Guangzhou in an emergency last night, and there are still long lines of people at the station today. (Image / flip from Weibo)
As for the school’s statement that students should return to their hometowns? According to the information provided by netizens on the South China University of Technology intranet, the principle of leaving school and returning home is “there is no special reason or need to stay in school, in principle, return home on as much as possible and not return to school unannounced after leaving school.” The way to leave the school is for the students to choose themselves Choose the way to go home. In addition, some schools on the Internet have even asked students not to accept interviews with foreign journalists whose identity cannot be confirmed upon returning to their hometowns, to prevent the interview content from being distorted.
▲A netizen gave an official statement from the South China University of Technology: “There is no special reason or need to stay in school. In principle, we should return to our hometown as much as possible. After leaving school , we won’t be returning to school without warning.” (Image/flip from Weibo)
There is no official official statement about the real reason for the rumors spread on Weibo and Twitter that many people fled at night. At present, Guangzhou officials only said at a press conference on the afternoon of the 29th that Zhang Yi, deputy director of the La Guangzhou Municipal Commission of Health and Health, said that in order to effectively stop the spread of the epidemic has spread. Recently, many districts have combined the situation of epidemic prevention and control in their jurisdictions to adjust and dynamically strengthen social prevention and control measures and nucleic acid testing strategies in a timely manner to minimize the flow of people and reduce the risk of the epidemic spreading. This includes supporting the home office or implementing a flexible work system, minimize the movement and collection of people; strictly control the dete tion of various large-scale activities; continue to do a good job in personal protection.
▲Scenes of students leaving Guangzhou at night went viral. Some Beijing students asked, “Beijing school accompanied me home. Can Guangzhou let me return?” (Image / flip from Weibo)
Regarding the situation in Guangzhou last night, netizens said, “The 30th is the deadline of the original lockdown notice, and a new notice will be issued, which will certainly be even more severe. Today’s press conference of the Health Commission of Guangzhou said the epidemic situation in Tianhe City Village is very serious.” Like Haizhu, why do all Tianhe universities issue notices to go home at night”, “No one fled because they were afraid of the virus, but because they were afraid of the lockdown policy”, “The lockdown is even worse Today I can still go out take a walk and the streets come to explain tomorrow. If I don’t give it away, I can only go shopping for 2 hours and the water has already been filled in the street.” Among them, some students who intended to return to Guangzhou said: “Can I still go back to Guangzhou? The Beijing school accompanied me home. Can Guangzhou let me come back?”
Full video of Guangzhou students escaping during the night:https://reurl.cc/EX6o8R
