This year's chunyun, or Spring Festival travel rush, has started well before Spring Festival itself. The peak of chunyun in the last few years has marked the most dramatic point in China's switch from ...

I swear I'd never been so nervous logging on the Internet than on Friday, when train tickets for the first day of my Spring Festival holiday could be booked on 12306.cn, the official website for ...

The world’s largest annual human migration officially began this past weekend in China. Starting Saturday during this year’s Spring Festival traveling period, also known as Chunyun, millions of ...

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, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- From steam locomotive and diesel trains to electric locomotives and high-speed rail, Du Ronghua has seen China's train speeds soar from 60 to 300 km per hour. Du, 45, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, I have wandered through the beating heart of China's Spring Festival travel rush — chunyun. Every winter, I move across railway stations, airports, service areas and toll ...

The story so far: Considered the largest annual human migration across the world, “chunyun” kicked off in China last week with Beijing bidding farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy, after almost ...