The world is now familiar with eerie images of empty Chinese mega cities, but intensive planning and war-scale work went into keeping cities quarantined, yet kicking. China introduced sweeping containment measures -- shutting down cities one after the other -- at a time when millions of people travel to their hometowns because of the Chinese New Year. While inter-city and inter-province movement slowed down heavily, and caused untold misery to millions, at no point did the government put a complete halt to flight, train or Metro services.

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