Chinese Lives

            China’s Spring New Year drops on Feb 7 this year, and presently 22 days pre new year, a battle called getting home is now on. Students, farmer workers and all others who work outside where families live will spend New Year with families at home, which make the rail system to care for 20 million person/time travel every year in 40 days covering both before and after New Year’s Day.

              Some major cities in China, such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing seem to be emptied before New Year, because people return to their hometown, while 5 days after New Year’s Day, big volume of population head back to big cities mentioned above via rail system.

             Airplanes and buses only divert small part passengers due to their transport capacity.  Last year, I joined Spring Travel on route from UK to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to Shen Zhen, Shen Zhen to Wuhan, which was expensive and long long journey. In Shen Zhen, my plane was 5 hours late.

              Here below, compared to my exhaustion and stress, this is a  real pain to queque for tickets five days before departure and know your seat on train is on depend, because pressure on rail is like 1/3 world population on the train. To transport more people home, rail system has to sell standing ticket.

             At last, my best wished to every Chinese on their way home.