Lunar New Year in China: the great transhumance in progress, the country at a standstill. Some 12.45 million Chinese took the train on Thursday February 8, there will be another 8.3 million this Friday.
Social networks are overflowing with images of this great migration of “Chunjie’, the “spring festival”, which brings together families from the four corners of a continent. A total of 1.8 billion tickets have already been sold, rail authorities say.