Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Nearly 3 billion trips forecast for holiday travel rush
Over 1.3 billion people in China celebrate the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. This year, February 5th is the New Year’s Day and two weeks before and after the day is referred to as the Spring Festival. During the 40-day long period until the end of February, many people travel across the country to reunite with their families that live away from them. It creates the world’s largest annual human migration called Chunyun or referred to as the Spring Festival travel season. Nearly three billion trips are expected to be made during the period this year, a slight increase from the previous year. Though the majority of the trips are seen on the roads and highways, over 400 million train trips and 73 million air travels are going to be made.
China added 4,100 kilometers of high-speed railways last year alone, extending the total length of the network to 29,000 kilometers. This has made long road or train travels much easier and more comfortable and is expected to help reduce long-haul bus rides and air travels. Still, nearly 1,000 flights are being added to 15,600 daily flights to during the period.
No matter how crowded and busy on the road, rails and at the airport might be, this is the time to travel to meet their families.
Enjoy reading about this largest seasonal human migration.
No comments:
Post a Comment