How you should hope in 2022

On Dec 15, 2021, Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao reported that the word "pan'' (translated to "hope" in English) was voted by their readers as the Chinese word of 2021.

We can understand why this word was chosen. During the pandemic which started in late 2019, we hoped for a vaccine to come quickly and lockdowns to be over sooner. We hoped that we could dine in with more people and we could start travelling again.

Some hoped that their industry would do better and that they could get a job again. The pandemic has greatly disrupted our lives and it is no surprise that we hoped for a better 2022.