CHUNYUN, also referred to as the Spring Festival travel season, is a period of travel in China with an extremely high traffic load around the Chinese New Year holiday. Emerging with the reform and opening up in China in the past 40 years, Chunyun has been called the largest annual human travel migration in the world.

As a migrant city, Shenzhen sees millions of trips in every Chunyun season. Since rail transport experiences the biggest challenges during this period, buying a train ticket in the 1980s-1990s usually involved hours of waiting for passengers, sometimes over night. In recent years, the city has planned ahead every year to tackle travel problems. Last year, the local traffic police used helicopters to check the road traffic and guide drivers. This year amid the pandemic, body temperature checking and quarantine works were carried out smoothly in every transport venue to ensure every passenger’s safety.(SD News)