Yang Yuchen is annoyed that her package holiday to Hong Kong was cancelled in October. The 25-year-old bank clerk had planned to spend the National Day week-long holiday (‘golden week’) dining, shopping and sightseeing in Hong Kong. But the China Travel Service office in her hometown of Zhengzhou, a large city in central China, cancelled its package tours to Hong Kong, meaning Yuchen could not get her Individual Visit Scheme permit, which is required by most mainland Chinese tourists to enter the special administrative region. State-owned CTS was responding to worries in the central government in Beijing that mainland holidaymakers would be caught up in – or perhaps inspired by – the protests, which brought large parts of Hong Kong to a standstill for the National Day holiday. Known as the Umbrella Revolution, the grassroots movement began in September 2014 in response to the terms of proposed electoral reform (specifically restrictions on civil nominations) issued by China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
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