春运介绍---英文.docVIP

就叫Chunyun，或者Spring Festival travel season。 Chunyun refers to the extremely high traffic load of transportation in China around the time of Chinese New Year. The high traffic load usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year, and lasts for around 40 days. This period is also called Spring Festival travel season, or Chunyun period. The number of passengers during the Chunyun period has exceeded the population of China, hitting the 2-billion mark in 2006. Rail transport experiences the biggest challenge during the period, and a myriad of social problems have emerged. Origin It is a long-held cultural belief for most Chinese people that Chinese New Year is a time to reunite with the family. People come home from work and study and have the Reunion dinner with their family on New Years eve. The celebration lasts fifteen days, although the government only sanctions seven of these days to be statutory holidays, and it ends with the Lantern Festival. Many Chinese prefer to return home earlier and return work after the end of the official holiday. Since the Chinese economic reforms of the late 1970s, new economic opportunities have emerged outside of peoples ancestral homesteads, a significant increase occurred in the amount of floating population around the country. Places such as Special Economic Zones and the wealthy coastal regions offer a sought-after lifestyle of many people. A massive migration also occurred with rural populations moving to booming urban areas. In addition, Chinese education reforms have increased the number of university students, who often study outside their hometown. The Spring Festival holiday period falls appropriately in the same time frame as their winter vacation. [1].Among the 144 million railway passengers of the 2006 Chunyun period were 6.95 million university students, about a third of the total, who had booked student tickets [2]. The number of members of the floating population was estimated at 50 million at 1990 and unofficially es