China’s National Development and Reform Commission estimates that 9.5 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Lunar New Year travel rush this year.
Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, has long been China’s biggest travel season, and is often described as the world’s largest annual human migration. The actual holiday falls on February 17 this year, beginning the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac, but vacations always begin a few weeks earlier, so the travel season known as chunyun officially began on February 2.
State planners anticipated some 540 million train tickets would be purchased, 95 million trips would involve…
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