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To prevent the sporadic resurgence of COVID-19, China encouraged people to stay put over the holiday this year, which lasted from Feb. 11 to 17.

As a rural blueprint unveiled annually, this year's document urged retaining a "red line" of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares) of arable land and preventing the use of arable land for non-farming purposes.

One designer said the new line can improve average manufacturing efficiency by more than 40 percent, as it enables many key satellite production steps to be carried out by machines rather than manual labor.

The number of trains traveling through Alataw Pass reached 5,027 in 2020, up 41.8 percent year on year, while those through Horgos Port totaled 4,652, up 37 percent year on year.

The total area planted in grain reached 116.8 million hectares in 2020, up by 704,000 hectares from last year and reversing a four-year streak of decline.