Name: Chinese New Year
Uploaded: 2019-03-13T07:50:40.000Z
Duration: 4 min 23 s
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the words “spring festival” and “insane crowds”

But in China, those words mean much bigger crowds,

It's the annual travel frenzy around Chinese New Year.

But because, like many traditional things in China,

the Communist Party changed the name to make it

less about those old feudal superstitions,

and more about the kind of messages they can control.

Anyway, Chinese New Year this year is February 5.

the Chinese New Year holiday is accompanied

by a massive travel rush that lasts about 40 days.

which means Spring Festival travel season.

This year, between January 21 and March 1,

Chinese people will make nearly 3 billion trips—

a few days with John Candy doesn't sound so bad.

The main reason for the ginormous travel crowds

from the countryside to the cities to find work—

go back to their hometowns to visit family.

And pretty much everyone in China gets the same dates off.

So this puts a big strain on China's infrastructure.

Tickets for buses, planes and trains can be really

the Chinese government launched Operation Sky Sword—

in Guangzhou, one of China's busiest transit hubs.

The situation has improved a bit since then.

Especially since the introduction of high speed trains.

you know, probably scan your face to keep tabs on you,

to serenade travelers with on-message music and songs;

Or train station dance performances that definitely don't feel forced.

have to pay to get home for the holidays.

So as China rings in the Year of the Pig,

as they try and survive the 2019 travel madness.

So how would you make the Chinese New Year travel madness

it's time to answer a question from a fan

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