China dashes travel blitz hopes for Golden Week

COVID curbs ramp up ahead of weeklong holiday, October leadership meeting

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Residents in Wuhan walk on a street draped with national flags ahead of the Golden Week holiday. The festivities mark the founding of modern China in 1949. © Getty Images

CK TAN, Nikkei staff writer

SHANGHAI -- Shanghai banker Duan Ming hoped to get away with his family as China's Golden Week holiday kicks off one of the country's biggest annual travel-and-spending blitzes.

But, like millions of others, the frustrated father will stay put again this year as authorities warned against travel over fears of an embarrassing COVID-19 outbreak before a key leadership meeting this month.

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