Billions of Chinese Citizens Get Home Village for Lunar New Year

Kereta super cepat buatan China di stasiun Shanghai

Billions of travelers in China preparing to return home to celebrate the traditional New Year (Lunar) beginning next February. They began to pack the train stations and airports in China, Wednesday, January 19, 2011.
According to the Ministry of Transport statement, quoted by Xinhua news agency, the number of passengers using various modes of transportation - trains, planes, ships and buses - could reach 2.56 billion people, this figure including migrant workers and workers from abroad because of China's population to 2010 recorded 1.3 billion people. The number of travelers increased by 11.6 percent. Period flow back and forth within the framework of Chinese New Year in China usually lasts for 40 days.
At the airport the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, as many as 252 aircraft fleet will be added to transport passengers. At the airport the city of Chongqing and Guangzhou, 12 additional aircraft by 5100 seats to be added.
High-speed rail will also be added at some stations in Wuhan, Hubei province. Ministry of Transportation said that 55 additional trains will be operated, a total of 88 high speed trains that will transport passengers. At this station has been provided as many as three million tickets will be sold.
For ordinary train, the Chinese government to add as many as 300 trains which are expected to transport 230 million people at its peak. Around 2265 the train will operate per day for 40 days.
Over the next 40 days, billions of people and ply to my hometown, whether to celebrate Chinese New Year with family and pilgrimage to the ancestral tomb. This holiday is a holiday that eagerly awaited by the workers who yearn to see relatives in the village.
"Fly rumahlah who make this great migration. I can not wait to go home, the warmth of the house will melt all the fatigue and difficulty in travel, "said Li Jiwei, a student at Lanzhou.
Not unlike in Indonesia, the travelers will be crowded trains by overcrowding. Those who can not seating, must be willing to stand throughout the journey. Police train, Zhao Hongye, said millions of people who poured hot like a sauna create an atmosphere.
"Patrols in the train like a sauna for me. Very solid, 18 cars along the 450 meters only, but to spend up to two hours until the end, "said Zhao.

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