Many of China's city residents chose to stay put for the Spring Festival holiday rather than returning to their hometowns so as to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmissions. The young away-from-home consumers caused a surge in sales of semi-finished Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve dinners. Online sales of such dinners increased by 376 percent year on year within 10 days of the launch of the annual national e-commerce shopping campaign leading up to Chinese New Year, data from the Ministry of Commerce shows.