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Chinese New Year（1）

The Living Past

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Welcome to China

We are here at the snow ice festival in the northern city of Harbin,where many

families come to

Start their celebrations of Chinese New time of year sees the largest annual

mass migration on the planet when a six of the world‟s population travels home to

celebrate with their is around a billion people making 3.5 billion

journeys in a 40 day us over

The next three nights as we find out what it is like to be at the world‟s biggest

,get your party props is what is coming ,two,one,go!

Over the next three nights we will be based here in icy Harbin and way down south

in tropical Hong Kong,exploring how the Chinese experience the most important

festival in their is like watching a magic ‟ll uncover this

extraordinary annual event and experience the richness of Chinese how

families prepare for festivities to be celebrations on the day the series I‟ll

be focusing on New Year technology and traditions,

”Happy New Year,Ganbei.”

I‟ll discover the amazing way that rural China used to celebrate New

tonight, the Hairy Bikers will be helping out to the world‟s largest motorbike

migration.

“Let‟s see if we can cut it, here, try New Year!”

And I will be journeying to the most remote corner of south-west China to down a

living,breathing symbol of New Year 2016.

“Oh, I like it, this.”

The year of the monkey.

“Chinese New Year is also known as the spring festival,or chunjie, is the right

pronunciation?”

“It lasts 15 days and it‟s the important holiday in the Chinese calendar.”

“The start of the festival falls on a different day in either January or February, dictated

by the lunar calendar. New Year‟s Day 2016 falling on February the 8

th

.”

“In the run-up to it, the whole country is on the move seeing the sights and traveling

home to be with their families.”

“China is truly vast. You can fly for six and a half hours and still be in the same

country.”

Harbin is in the north-eastern corner of this huge country that is home to 1.3 billion

people. As well as having some of the fastest-growing modern cities, the landscapes

are truly diverse. They range from vast deserts too expensive grasslands, tropical

jungles and the highest mountain range in the world. China written history dates back

over 3,000 years and through the reigns of over 500 emperors. It‟s economy is the

largest on earth and it makes and exports more goods than anywhere else on the globe.

Chinese food is as rich and varied as any on earth with thousands of dishes to choose

from, all cooked in a varied of ways using a host of ingredients grown right across the

vast nation. And it is changing astonishingly fast. By 2030, it is estimated that 1

billion people will be living in Chinese cities, just like here in Beijing.

Many of these new people flocking to the cities were migrant workers, in search of a

better life for themselves and their families. And at Chinese New Year, the modern

and the traditional are brought together, as the Chinese prepare for a celebration even

older than the Great Wall itself. The great Wall of China snakes for over 5000 miles

across northern and western China, and the oldest parts date back over 2500 years.

This is Harbin‟s great ice wall, not quite as long, 450 meters, and not as enduring,

either. When the thaw comes, this will be transformed into the great puddle of China.

As the day goes on, this place will fill up with queues lasting more than three hours,

but that is nothing compared to the pressure on the Chinese transport system when

around a billion people want to travel home for new year and all at the same time. The

Chinese have a phrase for it, Chunyun, which translates as spring migration. We went

to Beijing to find out how they cope with the biggest movement of people on Earth.

Beijing is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet. Around 21 million

people live and work here but, at Chinese New Year, millions flood out of the city and

head to their home towns across China.

The total numbers of trips made by road in China in and around New Year is an

eye-watering 3.2 billion and a lot are made in this very city in Beijing. Like cabbies

all over the world, my taxi driver Ma Yingqi enjoys a good old moan about the traffic.

“Now is the Spring Festival rush, so it takes a bit more time. Look at this car accident,

they just don‟t move their cars! That would be good. Block two lanes!”

Managing this flow of vehicles takes a huge amount of technology. This

state-of-the-art monitoring hub is the responsibility of Gongsun Lin. The traffic is

very, very busy, is busier than in Shanghai or Shenzhen because we have a really big

road network. It is a big job moving all the persons to their hometown. The roads are

monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Seven days, every day we have to be

here. And its cabs like the one I am in that provide the date needed to keep the traffic

flowing. We have 6,000-7,000 taxis in Beijing and everyone of them equipped with

GPS. Every 30 seconds, each taxi relates its position and speed back to the control

room. This information helps to construct a over-all picture of the city‟s traffic flow in

real time. The date can then be used to let drivers know where the hotspots are so they

can try to avoid the jams.

“ In a traffic jam, 6 or 7km takes one hours. That‟s considered good, 6km per hour.

You do the maths! We‟ve got no choice, but to get used to it. It happens all the

time.””We are getting nowhere, nothing we can do!”

For those who want to travel further afield for Chinese new year, there‟s another

option. The fly. Across China, a staggering 54 million trips are by air during the

festival. This is Beijing capital airport, and it is always busy but, during spring festival,

this becomes the busiest airport in the world. As you can see, it feels like the whole

country is on the move. During the New Year rush, almost 10 million people pass

through this airport, mostly flying home to China. Li Tongyu lives in Surrey. She is