Chunyun

China’s Spring Festival travel rush reflects 40 years of change in country Spring Festival travel rush in China, or Chunyun, is the largest annual human migration on earth, as people rush home for family reunions or off on other travel adventures. How people are traveling has mirrored changes in the country over the past 40 years. CGTN’s Cheng He reports. Three billion – that’s the number of […]
The world’s largest movement of people happens during Chinese New Year. We followed 7 of them The huge migration of people in China back to their family homes for Spring Festival is called Chunyun. It’s the massive rush of people by plane, train, and automobile that has become the largest annual migration of people in the world.
World’s largest human migration Chunyun may break record The start of the Lunar New Year is just a weekend away. And the world’s largest human migration, “Chunyun”, is happening in China.
7 million travel by rail on Spring Festival’s first day of “Chunyun” China’s railways transported seven million passengers on Sunday, the first day of the country’s annual Spring Festival travel rush, also known as “Chunyun”.