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Emerging From Isolation

Mu Xiaolong, a 31-year-old from the Derung ethnic group, took part in an online Spring Festival gala in January. Unlike the grand gala broadcast live by China Central Television on Lunar New Year’s Eve, which was January 24 this year, this online gala was recorded days before.

For the recording, Mu traveled all the way from Dulongjiang Township in Yunnan Province in southwest China to Langfang, a city in Hebei Province neighboring Beijing. The trip took him about three days.

Mu carried local specialties

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