Hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens to return home to celebrate the Lunar New Year which falls tomorrow. It became a world of human migration that took place before until after the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Xinhua news agency reported the transport authority reports the total number of travel during the Lunar reached 2.52 billion road trip, 360 million train trips, and 58.3 million aircraft travel. China transport system established to make hundreds of millions of citizens did not encounter severe obstacles on the way home to my hometown.
"Chinese citizens have grown accustomed to traveling and have become migrant workers in cities far from home," reports China Daily. "Every year China's transportation system that is increasingly well supported by infrastructure development over the last few years."
China also has the longest fast train network in the world. Thus, the increase in the number of people going home well balanced transportation system support. "Total railroad built this year reached 20,000 km. It became the fastest train network of the longest in the world, "according to Chinese media reports. Chinese citizens also been able to book tickets in advance for the 60 days prior to departure.
However, the queue at the train station still occur. Nearly 17% of users are willing to queue trains for several hours to enter the terminal and exchange the tickets online because a lot of the crowd. The situation increasingly difficult for China to face the winter is quite disturbing. Coupled with the air pollution is very disturbing residents.
Homecoming tradition in China is growing since 1954 when the Spring Festival or "chunyun" widespread after the project railway line built in China in 1954. Six decades later, returning home evolved into a culture that is conducted every Lunar.
"Chunyun lasted from January 13 to February 21. The number of Chinese citizens going home also increased compared to last year, "Xinhua reported.
Wang Wentai, 65, do not be going home because he could not enter the station due to the density of people there. In fact, he had come two hours before the scheduled departure of the train. "A lot of people lining up. I do not know where I have to queue. So, I was just a waste of time, "Wang told AFP.
Compared with other countries, China is the most crowded in the back and forth. India does not recognize the mass migration tradition to celebrate certain holidays or yearly festival. In the United States (US), which had also not as busy Thanksgiving in China. "49 million Americans traveling for Thanksgiving. China's population do 3 million trips this year, "according to a comparison of reported Bloomberg.
Military reform
Chinese President Xi Jinping to use the moment of the Lunar New Year's message to his people. He suggested China's military to ensure free from corruption and the Communist Party to emphasize reforms. It was presented Xi China while visiting troops in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. "We need to fight corruption, particularly in the military," Xi said, quoted by Reuters.
President Xi revealed that Chinese soldiers did not replicate Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou. Both Guo and Xu is a deputy wakmanan the Central Military Commission with corruption. Guo had been sentenced to life imprisonment. While Xu died of cancer in 2015 before facing trial.
Xi ambition to modernize China's military focus of war and increase the fleet aircraft carrier. China also spread influence in the South China Sea that makes the Southeast Asian country to face its own concerns.
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