Nanchang

Nanchang Project, a non-profit group that helps connect adoptees to their roots in China, said it felt “a sense of relief that no more children will be separated from their birthplace, culture, and identity”.

In second-tier cities, like Nanchang, the rebound has been more muted, and even nonexistent in smaller cities.

This month, local officials in Nanchang hosted a free mass wedding for 100 couples who got married simultaneously inside a massive sports stadium, touting the slogan: “We Want Happiness, Not Bride Price.”

In the eastern city of Nanchang, a street divides “Xinli City,” a development with more than 4,000 apartments, into two sections.

Nanchang County traffic police posted on its official Weibo account about 7 a.m. on Sunday that some parts of the area were encountering "heavy foggy weather."