Spring Festival travel rush kicks off, while China encourages people not to travel
CHINA / SOCIETY By GT staff reporters Published: Jan 27, 2021 10:54 PM China's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush has kicked off on Thursday. Beijing West Railway Station expects the holiday travel rush to peak between February 16-18, and an estimated 70,000 passengers on average arriving at the station a day. Photo: Li Hao/GT Dubbed the world's largest human migration, this year's Spring Festival travel rush, estimated at around 1.152 billion trips, is 60 percent decline than that of 2019. Photo: Chen Xia/GT To make this unusual Spring Festival as happy, safe and wonderful as usual, of...