China's Spring Festival Rush Sets Single-Day Record
February 22, 2026·about 1 month ago·via VisaHQ

China's Spring Festival travel rush, known as chunyun, shatters records with 352.999 million cross-regional passenger trips on February 20, a 12.3 percent surge from last year. This monumental movement across rail, air, highway, and waterway networks underscores the world's largest annual human migration during the 40-day period from February 2 to March 13, projected to total 9.5 billion trips.
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