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China gears up for Lunar New Year celebrations

Student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to bo

By :  sadhguru jaggi vasudev
Update: 2016-02-04 06:03 GMT
Monkey decorations are on display for sale at a store in Hong Kong.
A vendor, left, shows the monkey decorations to a customer at a annual market in Hong Kong. Chinese will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Feb. 8 this year which marks the Year of Monkey on the Chinese zodiac.
A customer, center, purchases a tangerine plant, which represents wealth at a annual market in Hong Kong.
By comparison, Chinese made 3.6 billion trips during the same holiday period in 2014.
In coastal Zhejiang province near Shanghai, officials expect a 4.4 per cent drop in passenger traffic as jobs dry up and migrant labourers pack up early to head to their family homes in China's hinterlands well before the New Year.
At the Beijing railway station, student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to book two months in advance.
'It's great to have the whole family sit down and enjoy a family dinner together. I have been working far from home with my kid for a whole year,' he said.
'I have my parents back in my hometown and I must go back and have the family reunion,' said Ma Xijie, a migrant worker from Sichuan province who was travelling back home by train with his son and wife.
Chinese travellers are expected to make 2.9 billion trips during the 40-day period between January 21 and March 3, with the majority of those trips falling in the weeks around the February 8 Lunar New Year, the Ministry of Transport said.
Chinese are packing train and bus stations as the peak travel season kicks into high gear this weekend with hundreds of millions of people going home for Spring Festival celebrations - or head for vacation destinations.
Student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to bo

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