Chinese New Year: Clamping down on going home for the holidays
Today marks
the start of the world's largest human migration - an event which sees millions
of people travel thousands of miles across China to reach home in time for the
Lunar New Year.
For some, it
is the only time they will see their families all year and is an event not to
be missed.
But there
are fears the Spring Festival travel season, or Chunyun in Chinese, could
become a superspreader event. After all, last year's Chunyun is believed to
have played a significant role in the spread of Covid-19 view
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So the
Chinese authorities have been left with a problem: how do you encourage people
to stay local, without actually cancelling the country's biggest annual
celebration?
The stick
This year's
Chunyun begins on 28 January and will last until 8 March, giving people time to
travel potentially thousands of miles across China in time for New Year, on 12
February, and back again view
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In a normal
year, China sees around three billion trips during the Chunyun period.
But last
year, as the virus began to gain momentum and the government introduced travel
restrictions, figures from the Ministry of Transport show the number of trips
fell by more than half view
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