Lunar New Year

China’s Omicron outbreaks dampening Lunar New Year travels

Typically the world's largest annual human migration, China’s Lunar New Year holiday is expecting traffic to be well below pre-pandemic numbers. Chinese residents made 3 billion trips around the Spring Festival season in 2019.Travellers are expected to make an estimated 1.18 billion trips over the 40-day period, a 36 per cent increase on 2021 figures, according to China's Ministry of Transport.


 

January 21, 2022