Three years of extreme anti-COVID lockdown measures have resulted in many Chinese wanting to escape China, where they say there is little hope.
Some have made it abroad successfully, while others are seeking opportunities. Despite the danger and an uncertain future, they share the same belief: Free air is worth it.
“I had to escape no matter what,” Chen Ping (pseudonym) told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times at the Belgrade international airport, Serbia, on March 25.
Chen, in her sixties, is from Shenyang, an industrial city in northeast China.
Chen’s mobile phone has no internet service, so she uses the Wi-Fi network at the airport where she is also staying….