Never before in human history have so many people traveled so much in such a short time as in the past few weeks. An estimated 8.4 billion individual trips were made between January 28 and March 5.
This year around 480 million passengers used the railway and 83 million the plane. Around 29 million people traveled by ship. The vast majority of journeys were made by car or bus. China and other countries in the region traditionally start the new year with the Spring Festival. It always falls on a new moon between January 21st and February 21st.