This year’s Easter coincided with the Qingming Festival, creating a five-day “super long weekend.” The mainstream news reported the number of people traveling abroad with a celebratory tone every day. Final statistics showed that during the five-day long holiday from April 3 to 7, a total of 2.36 million people departed Hong Kong. Among them, 77%—more than 1.81 million people—headed north, over-fulfilling the “integration KPI”. No wonder officials were so self-satisfied; meanwhile, Hong Kong’...

This year’s Easter coincided with the Qingming Festival, creating a five-day “super long weekend.” The mainstream news reported the number of people traveling abroad with a celebratory tone every day. Final statistics showed that during the five-day long holiday from April 3 to 7, a total of 2.36 million people departed Hong Kong. Among them, 77%—more than 1.81 million people—headed north, over-fulfilling the “integration KPI”. No wonder officials were so self-satisfied; meanwhile, Hong Kong’...