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China's 'Chunyun' Spring Festival Travel Rush
Begins: 3.62 Billion Trips Expected
on January 15 2014 12:43 PM
China is bracing itself for its annual stampede of
holiday travelers as the Spring Festival travel rush begins. Before, during and
after this year’s weeklong Spring Festival holiday, marked by China’s Lunar New
Year celebration on Jan. 31, an estimated 3.62 billion passenger trips
will be made across the country.
Even for a population of 1.3 billion people, the numbers are staggering.
Often described as the world’s biggest annual migration of people, this year’s
40-day holiday travel period will see crowds occupying trains, cars and planes
to make their way to see loved ones. According to state-run
Xinhua News Agency, the numbers are up from last year, with roughly 200
million more trips being made.
According to Lian Xiao’an, spokesman for the Ministry of Transport, most of
the trips will be made on the road, with about 3.2 billion trips by car or bus.
Meanwhile, airlines will also feel the holiday travel pressure, with about 42
million flights, up 10 percent from last year, the deputy head of the Civil
Aviation Administration, Xia Xinghua, said.
Then there are trains, which will be taking around
258 million trips, and have been plagued with crashing websites and ticket
scalping in the past. Though China’s railway system has become increasingly
far-reaching, the railway’s online ticketing system has been notoriously
unable to keep the pace with the high demand of travelers
during the season. The problems, it seems, won’t necesarily be fixed this time
around either. “There is no timetable for sorting out the problem of getting
tickets,” Hu Yadong, president of China Railway Corp., said in a press
conference. “Both the government and our company are working hard on this and I
believe we can gradually alleviate the problems.”
However, not everyone is dreading the travel rush.
The travel season, locally referred to as "chunyun," is the one time a year many
migrant workers living in large cities return to their rural homes. For many of
these migrant workers, traveling home requires several days on the road.
According to the
China Daily, in southern Guangdong province, migrant
workers traveling on motorbikes during the holiday rush will enjoy free gasoline
at Sinopec gas stations. On top of that, the deputy Party chief of Sinopec’s
Guangdong branches is also offering motorbike travelers a holiday gift basket
filled with amenities like snacks, cake, noodles, water, and a raincoat.
According to government statistics, around 400,000 migrant workers are expected
to be traveling home on motorbikes this holiday season.