Chunyun
China is expected to see 9 billion passenger trips during the annual Spring Festival travel rush or chunyun, the Ministry of Transport said on January 16.
Considered the largest annual human migration in the world, chunyun—the 40-day period when hundreds of millions of Chinese head home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families—will last from January 26 to March 5 this year as the holiday will fall on February 10.
Passenger trips by rail, highway, waterway and civil aviation are expected to reach 1.8 billion during the period, Vice Minister of Transport
