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January 27, 2025
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What is "Chunyun," the Spring Festival travel rush, and how was it this year?

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What is "Chunyun," the Spring Festival travel rush, and how was it this year?


During the chinese new year (cny) celebrations, chinese people return to their hometown or where their families live for the spring festival (cny) celebrations, often referred to as the world's best in the world.


Hundreds of millions of people travel by air, train, or road for holiday or leisure each year, and much of the data is similar to christmas time in the west.


After covid restrictions were lifted on january 23, china railway revealed that it had served over 100 million passengers for 2025, the third chinese new year after covid restrictions were lifted.


Authorities predict that over 256 million tourists will travel across china during the entire festive season period, with 14.2 million on the day and 297 million train tickets for travel during the spring festival period.


Last year, many people were able to get ahead of the travel season by taking their own snowstorm right before the new year, which affected a wide swath of china.


Anecdote, however, it must be taken into account that there was a significant snowstorm last year right before the new year that affected a wide swath of china.


More people are expected to travel by car and by bike on express highways in china during the 2011 unesco intangible cultural heritage spring festival travels, which attracted heavy traffic on express highways.


2025 dao insights & dash; this cny is the 20th anniversary of this popup; you can see how this popup was constructed in our step-by-step guide: https://www.wppopup.com/guides/auto-announcement-popups/.


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