Millions on the move for Lunar New Year
14-01-2009
Millions of migrant workers in mainland China have begun jamming train stations to buy tickets home for the Lunar New Year break. Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the biggest of two "Golden Week" holidays, giving migrant workers their only chance of the year of returning to their home provinces with gifts for the family, the biggest movement of humanity in the world. Last year, the mass movement was disrupted by the worst winter weather in the south in decades and this year, the holiday has little meaning for millions who have lost their jobs as factories have shut down in the once-booming south and gone home early. The holiday begins on January 26. The second Golden Week of the year celebrates National Day on Oct 1.
