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If China's population is ~1.3 billion, then how will trains move ~3 billion in the largest migration in human history?

• bmc7505 10y ago
  Author here. Passengers take multiple journerys during Spring Festival. After some fact-checking, 2.9B appears to be the total number of passenger journeys [1] (not just train journeys), which is estimated to be ~332 million in 2016 [2], according to the Information Office of the Ministry of Transport. However, Chinese state sources have a history of inflating their own statistics [3], so the true number of passengers journeys is probably less that reported. I have updated the post to clarify, thanks for reading carefully! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun [2]: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/02/travel/china-guangzhou-railway-station-chunyun-crowds/ http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/02/travel/china-guangzhou-rai... [3]: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/18/news/economy/china-province-falsified-economic-data/ http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/18/news/economy/china-province-...
  • horsecaptin 10y ago
    Thank you! =) Pretty interesting article.
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