Chunyun, also known as the new year tourist season in China, is characterized by extremely high traffic.
The Spring Festival usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year and lasts for regarding 40 days. This journey has been called the largest annual human migration in the world.
Because China has loosened its containment measures COVID-19 So this year, during China’s 40-day Lunar New Year tourism peak, regarding 2.09 billion passenger trips are expected, up 99.5% from 2022 levels. (Photo: Archyde.com).
In the past 3 years, with the campaign to “eat Tet on the spot” in China due to the raging epidemic, many people were unable to reunite with their families during the Spring Festival. However, this year the number of passengers has increased rapidly (Photo: Archyde.com).
It is estimated that the number of people traveling to visit family accounts for regarding 55% of the total number of Xuan Yun passengers, regarding 24% of business travelers, regarding 10% of commercial travel, many colleges and universities have been closed. before spring luck begins. (Photo: Xinhua).
According to forecasts, this year’s Spring Festival will be very complicated for the control of COVID-19 in China.
The Shenzhen North Railway Station in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province was packed with passengers.
China’s Ministry of Transport advises people to limit travel and gatherings on New Year’s Day, especially when there are the elderly, pregnant women, young children and people with underlying medical conditions.
Data published by the Spring Yun Working Committee showed that on January 7, the whole of China transported 34.736 million passengers, an increase of 11.1% over the same period in 2021 and a decrease of 48.6% compared to the same period in 2021. with the same period in 2019 and up 38.9% over the same period in 2022. (Photo: Xinhua).
People queue to enter a train station in Beijing (Photo: AP).
In Guangdong, the southern economic hub, this number is estimated at 25.4 million. Rail transport companies in the area have decided to increase trips to meet the large travel demand.
In the Yangtze River Delta, one of the regions that welcomes the largest number of people returning home for the Chinese New Year, the railway industry readied regarding 60 million passenger trains during the peak 40 days.
A family is waiting for the train so they can go home for the New Year (Image: AP).
This year’s Chinese Spring Festival lasts for 40 days, starting on January 7 and ending on February 15.
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