This is the one time per year when all families trying to get together, often in their home town.
Some have already gone home but during end of next week millions of chinese will travel by car, bus, train and airplane across China to reach their home towns. This is a gigantic logistic issue that I think just can be done here in China.
At the Beijing West Railway Station,120 temporary ticket windows is opened near the main ticketing hall. As of Jan 5, 240 ticket windows now serve the large crowds lining up to buy tickets home from Spring Festival. Tickets are sold around the clock.
Also preparation for the big fireworks have started - to soon and illegal in some areas...
Also preparation for the big fireworks have started - to soon and illegal in some areas...
Police and firefighters in begiining of the weeks destroyed a huge batch of illegal fireworks that had been confiscated in the lead up to Spring Festival. 3,500 boxes of fireworks valued at around RMB 1.02 million were destroyed. The explosion took place at a reservoir in Daxing District on Monday.
