Chinese New Year Is World’s Biggest Human Migration
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Chinese New Year Is World’s Biggest Human Migration
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#2Prior to working where I am now, I worked at a fabless semiconductor manufacturer, with a development office in Shenzhen. It was actually kindof nice: As long as everything was coordinated properly back in November, China would continue working during US Christmastime, and we would keep working during China New Year.
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#3That's amazing. I always assumed that the Hajj to Mecca was the largest.
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#4That's amazing. I always assumed that the Hajj to Mecca was the largest.
With some metrics, I bet it still is. My understanding is (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that everyone is all going to a specific set of locations (instead of the more-broad "where family is"). What I'm not sure about is if everyone goes to those places in the same order, on the same days.
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#5> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...]
So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people involved in this phenomenon, somehow or another- roughly 1 out of every 5 humans on the planet!
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#6> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...] So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people involved in this phenomenon, somehow or another- roughly 1 out of every 5 humans on the planet!
The 1.5 bilion people number seems fishy to me, because that's slightly larger than the total population of China.
EDIT: The official and current UN number is 1.42B. China's last official count was 1.35B in January 2013.
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#7> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...] So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people involved in this phenomenon, somehow or another- roughly 1 out of every 5 humans on the planet!
Which can't be right, as China 'only' has a population of 1.4 billion, of which a significant portion will probably not travel since most of their family is local.
This has to somehow include multiple trips per person. Maybe train to airpot + flight + train to destination + the same for return.
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#8> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...] So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people involved in this phenomenon, somehow or another- roughly 1 out of every 5 humans on the planet!
The 1.5 bilion people number seems fishy to me, because that's slightly larger than the total population of China. EDIT: The official and current UN number is 1.42B. China's last official count was 1.35B in January 2013.
If you're a couple heading home, you may need to travel three times to be with two sets of family.
You might also need to travel multiple times to have a traditional meal at the family home, and then go somewhere else for an actual vacation getaway.
Enough edge cases and the numbers could work out. Also the metric is trips, not people; if you live in some provincial village out in the country you may need to take multiple modes of transportation.
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#9> The government expects 2.99 billion journeys to take place over the holiday, an increase of 0.6 percent from the previous year [...] So assuming most are taking a trip somewhere and a trip back, that's about 1.5 billion people involved in this phenomenon, somehow or another- roughly 1 out of every 5 humans on the planet!
Which can't be right, as China 'only' has a population of 1.4 billion, of which a significant portion will probably not travel since most of their family is local. This has to somehow include multiple trips per person. Maybe train to airpot + flight + train to destination + the same for return.
The metric is journeys, not people. There are lots of small villages not directly connected to the rail network or an airport.
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#10In other news, protests in Hong Kong over Chinese tourists.
"We don’t want your money: Chinese shoppers told to spend cash elsewhere by frustrated Hongkongers who just want some peace and quiet" https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/articl...
Also, Bloomberg is really the worst with clickbait titles.