What about Chinese Singaporeans who have not returned home for more than 1200 days this year?

Welcome slogan at the airport after landing in Shanghai.

Red Star journalist Chen Yifan Jing Lan

Editor Wang He

After waiting for 1200 days, Singaporean Chinese Xiao Wang finally went home. He spent nearly 40 thousand yuan on a plane ticket, so excited that he couldn't sleep all night. When he landed in Shanghai and successfully cleared customs, the 36-year-old man shed tears and even wanted to kneel on the ground and kiss the floor tiles of the airport. On February 26th, 2022, 65438, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism released the overall plan of "B and B management" for novel coronavirus infection. As for optimizing the management of personnel exchanges between China and foreign countries, it is mentioned in the plan that from June 8, 2023, people coming to China will be tested for nucleic acid 48 hours before leaving the country, and those who are negative can come to China without applying for health codes from China embassies and consulates abroad, and the results will be filled in the customs health declaration card. If it is positive, the relevant personnel should come to China after turning negative. Cancel the nucleic acid detection and centralized isolation of all personnel after entry. If the health declaration is normal and the routine quarantine at the customs port is normal, it can be released to the public. Cancel the number control measures of international passenger flights such as "five ones" and load factor restrictions. There is no isolation measures at the airport, and it is not required to pick it up on the ground. Seeing that everything is back to normal, Xiao Wang knows that life will get better and better from now on.

Grab the ticket and go home

Finally, it cost nearly 40,000 RMB.

I am Xiao Wang. In 2005, I went to Singapore for preparatory courses, and then I went to Nanyang Technological University to study. 20 10 stayed in Singapore to do shipping-related work after graduating from university, and now I am 36 years old.

I used to go back to Shandong for the New Year from Singapore, or fly from Singapore to Shanghai and then go back to Shandong from Shanghai. Or fly directly from Singapore to Shandong. I usually get home the same day. There are no fewer than 20 flights between Singapore and China every day, but it is very difficult for Singapore to fly to China every day during the epidemic, and there will be an infinite fuse, so you can't get on the plane again if you buy a plane ticket.

On June/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/October/KOOC-0/day, 2022, the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism issued the Notice on Further Optimizing the Prevention and Control Measures of COVID-19 Epidemic, namely "Twenty Articles", which cancelled the fuse mechanism of inbound flights and adjusted the isolation period and nucleic acid detection of inbound personnel.

After the introduction of Article 20, the flight to China was stable. We people are scrambling for visas.

On February 8, 2022 at 65438, I got my visa to return to China, and immediately booked a flight on June 2, 2023. I need to be quarantined when I come back. But soon, on February 26th, 65438+2022, the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council released the Overall Plan for Implementing B and B Management of novel coronavirus Infection. From June 8, 2023, China passengers' nucleic acid detection and centralized entry quarantine will be cancelled, and the number control measures of international passenger flights such as "five ones" and load factor restrictions will be cancelled.

Seeing this policy in the middle of the night, I immediately got up and changed my ticket to 65438+10.9, so there is no need to isolate it.

At that time, the air ticket alone cost S $5,800, plus the change fee 1900, and finally it cost nearly RMB 40,000.

I grabbed a ticket at that time. When I got up the next morning, all the tickets for returning home were empty.

It's much cheaper to fly back to China now, but I can't wait. I would rather spend more money. I don't care about money. I just want to go home.

Xiao Wang has been watching the road map on the plane.

Mobile phone downtime

You don't need taxi software, you can only pay cash.

20231October 9, 65438, take Airbus 380 from Singapore to Shanghai at 8 am. But I got up after 4 o'clock, and stayed up all night excited the night before.

I slept until 10: 30 on the plane, and then I kept looking at the real-time route map of the plane and watched the flight fly between Hong Kong, Shaoguan, Nanchang and Changsha. I am very excited because I can surf the Internet on the plane. I told my friends where I had been flying. It's almost time to wait. Tell your friends in Hangzhou that I have flown over your head. Finally landed in Shanghai.

I did nucleic acid before boarding the plane, and now I only need to hold a 48-hour nucleic acid negative certificate. It was quite silky when I passed the border inspection. The immigration officer at the airport looked at my 60-day visit visa, crossed it out and stamped it. I entered this country.

Out of the customs, I couldn't help crying, and even wanted to kneel on the ground and kiss the land of China. I really haven't been back for a long time. I came back three times a year before the epidemic, but I didn't come back for more than three years 1200 days.

My grandmother was critically ill in ICU at the beginning of 20021,and my parents didn't dare to tell me. At last, when they greeted me, they wanted me to be mentally prepared, but my grandmother was saved.

Now that I see the hope of a new life, I can think about everything at home in the future and come back if I want.

202 1, at that time, it was stipulated in Singapore that the number of people eating and having a dinner should not exceed five, so we kept each dinner within five. By 2022, it will gradually open to no more than 10 people. I also sent a circle of friends at that time. I said I couldn't get 10 people to have dinner together. After thinking for a long time, I can't think of this picture: it turns out that 10 people can eat together, and this table is still sitting 10 people.

But it's different now. You see that everything is slowly recovering, and then things will always get better.

I passed the border inspection, took my luggage, and rushed out of the airport without any isolation measures and nucleic acid inspection, without any obstacles in the middle.

Funny thing is, because I didn't come back for three years, my China mobile phone number stopped for some reason, so I don't need taxi software like Didi and Gaode at all.

I asked someone to call a car for me, but I couldn't scan Didi's payment code and log in at the end of the payment. Just took out a RMB of 50, and I told the driver to find a RMB of 10.

Hearing this, the driver immediately burst out laughing. He may think I'm a turtle.

Shandong fruit radish

go home for Spring Festival

Every meal has fruit radish produced in Shandong.

After I arrived in Shanghai, I first dealt with the company's affairs, and then changed to a new mobile phone number. I decided to keep charging.

65438+1October 18, landed in Qingdao, called a Didi Express, and drove 170 kilometers directly to the door of Laizhou. In the past three years, my parents have changed their new houses, and I have never been here once. I went the wrong way back this time, but fortunately they stood at the gate of the community waiting for me.

At about 5 pm, I got off the bus and cried as soon as we met. My parents are over 60 years old, with many facial wrinkles and white hair.

Dad is standing by the car and mom is at the gate of the community. I went to cry with my mom first, and then cried with my dad. It was really a mess, and the community security was a little surprised.

Maybe my parents are introverted, unlike me. I haven't seen you for three years. My mother told me not to cry. Awkward. Let me go in quickly. My dad didn't say anything, just smiled.

When I got home, I found my old things, and I didn't lose them. They all put them in my new house. At home, I even turned to the student ID card of junior high school and senior high school, as well as my business card as the secretary-general of China International Students' Association when I was studying at Nanyang Technological University. They have tidied up all my rooms.

That night, my favorite food at the dinner table was Shandong fruit radish, Portunus trituberculatus in Laizhou Bay, fried meat with garlic moss, and even a king crab.

I especially like eating fruit radish. Before I came back, I told my mother to keep some radishes. As a result, after I returned to China, I basically had fruit radishes for every meal. I can eat a plate of this sweet radish by myself.

Xiao Wang's own photo

Crabs have never been broken. Eating crabs at noon and eating crabs at night is also sending crabs between relatives.

Like our Portunus trituberculatus in Laizhou Bay, it smells particularly fragrant these days, and the crab paste of the female crab is particularly fat, which is not found anywhere else. What Singapore eats now is all Sri Lankan crabs, which are not delicious anyway.

Besides crabs, I went home and ate tomatoes and strawberries, which were not delicious in Singapore. My parents are going to cook the Zhejiang Jinhua ham and smoked dried bamboo shoots I bought tonight.

It's really a different feeling to go home for the New Year. Finally, I don't have to worry about who to eat with or where to eat. We must have eaten this year's New Year's Eve at our own home. Just like before, I watched the Spring Festival Gala at home, and then began to pack jiaozi the next morning.