The annual mass migration of Chinese folks has kicked off… with millions of people travelling back to their hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year).
There are hundreds of millions Chinese citizens who left their rural hometown to work in relatively prosperous cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen etc… lots of these migrate-workers would travel back to their hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival with their family and friends before getting back to work again weeks later.
The travel mass creates a huge logistic challenge for Chinese transportation system; Guangzhou alone is expecting over 13 million of train passengers during the two weeks period (prior to CNY)… about two to three times more than their usual capacity.
Despite the chaos, the Chinese agencies have managed to handle the challenge pretty well over the years. Last year’s situation was troublesome because of the snow storm, but the travellers can go home with a blessing weather this year.
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Wow, that’s just too many people in one roon, lol. I would hate to be standing in that crowd. Imagine the heat generated in the middle of all those people, and probably some body odor too. :p
this happens every year.
but it’s good to know that many chinese people value their family highly and would go through all the hassle to get back home.
happy early CNY!
cole… I guess nobody would like to be in such a crowdy place ain’t so?
Happy early CNY bb :)
i read from a news that this year there will be 120 million people leaving the cities, and they might have problem of train tickets shortage. good luck to this folks. happy cny everyone!!!