China Lunar New Year this year kicked off on February 2 and will run for 40 days. The official Spring Festival public holidays, as the new year celebrations are known, run from February 15 to 23.Hundreds of millions of people criss-cross China during Lunar New Year holidays each year to reunite with families in their hometowns or for sight-seeing in an extended festive period, making it the world’s largest annual human migration. The Lunar New Year travel rush, or „Chunyun” in Chinese, is often seen as a barometer for the country’s economic health and a pressure test ‌of its ⁠vast transport ⁠system.

Officials are gearing up for a record 9.5 billion domestic trips during the 40 days, up from around 9.02 billion last year.

Annual official tallies have climbed up since the Transport Ministry broadened its counting method before the Lunar New Year in 2023 to include road trips on major national expressways.

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