A somewhat biased view on China…
This and next Saturday are quite important in the West. Christmas is usually celebrated with the familly while New Year’s Eve is spent with friends. on the 24th, 12 000 kilometers far from Belgium, I will think about my familly gathering near the tree… And then, on the 31st, I’ll remember my friends in Belgium, France, etc. But then…
Chinese New Year will come and then, I’ll get out of Beijing and probably out of China! As usual for the Chinese New Year, the Labour’s Day (May 1st) and the National Day (October 1st), suddenly, billions of people will start to move on the road by bus, train, plane! Most of them are students and migrant workers going back to their cities and villages to see their familly.
This time, they expect to have more than 2 billions persons on the road: 1.8 billion by road, 144 million by train and 15 million by plane. The government is pushing local authorities and petroleum companies to be ready in order to handled this periodical transportation crisis. While Chinese New Year starts on the 29th of January for 15 days, the transportation crisis will last from January 14 to February 22.
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January 24th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
[…] Yes, I’m talking about Adult Diapers… Next Sunday starts the Year of the Dog. Lots of Chinese people will go back to their home town to spend the Festival with their family. As I said in a previous post, they are expecting to have more than 2 billions travelers during the Festival: by plane, by car and… by train! […]