Chinese current year signals major travel across the country,and railways are at the heart of many journeys. Author and BBC journalist Michael Bristow knows China well and the insight time on board offersHow to travel by high-speed train around ChinaChinese people will form nearly 400 million train trips over Chinese current year (16 February this year). Migrant workers will leave the cities and head back to the countryside to see their children; students will travel home for the long winter holiday; elderly parents will visit their grown-up children.
The mass arrival of cars and planes has changed the nature of travel in China but the railways remain the country’s most distinguished form of transport. However, trains do not just find you from A to B: in China, and these often long journeys give travellers a snapshot of ordinary life,a sense of where they are.
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Source: guardian.co.uk