As train K4159 left the Beijing West Railway Station to Hefei, East China's Anhui Province, at 12:02 am on Tuesday, China's annual Spring Festival travel rush, or chunyun, officially started. This ...

BEIJING -- Some 257.8 million Chinese passengers are expected to travel by rail during this year's "chunyun", the Spring Festival travel season. According to the China Railway Corporation, the ...

BEIJING -- As of Monday, passengers can buy train tickets online or by telephone for the first day of "chunyun," a 40-day travel rush period around the Spring Festival. Only tickets for temporary ...

Chunyun, China’s 40-day Spring Festival travel period, marks the beginning of the world’s largest human migration. In a normal year, hundreds of millions of people would be traveling across the ...

The mass exodus for the holidays that bring Chinese families together is already underway. This year, a record 9.5 billion passenger trips are expected, 540 million by rail. With tickets hard to come ...

Every year, roughly 40 days before and after the Lunar New Year, China completely transforms. Trains fill, highways slow to a crawl, and airports push their limits as hundreds of millions of people ...

In terms of raw numbers in almost every category, the Chinese New Year Spring Festival is the largest human event on the planet. In the seven days of the Lunar New Year, Chinese are expected to spend ...

It's estimated that over 2.9 billion people will travel during the upcoming spring festival travel rush, or chunyun this year. Tourists are checking their tickets at Shanghai Railway Station on ...

Although Lunar New Year in China doesn’t officially start until February 19, the epic homecoming party began earlier this month. Chunyun, or spring migration, is the world’s largest annual human ...