The A new year is about to dawn in on the Chinese calendar but one thing we traditionally see in the world most popularing populated country is missing and that's what where we start with the week on CNN 10.
I am Carl Azuz.
Every year we`ve reported on this
We`ve talked about how Lunar New Year or Spring Festival causes the world's largest human migration. For this holiday, there are more train travellers in China than there are people living in the United States. We are talking roughly 400 million rail passengers and that doesn't count the tens of millions who travel by air or use other forms of transportation.
But it's as the years 4719 begins on the Chinese calendar, this Friday, not really nearly as many of people are crossing the country to see their families. Some are missing their only opportunity to do that for the year.
And world while the festival that usually lasts 15 days will still be celebrated by more than a 1 billion people in China and other Asian countries.
The Chinese government is encourging and in some cases are requiring people there to celebrate at home.
===Jolly Strolling in hours the aisles of a Shanghai grocery shop store, Vicky Wang is stuck enogh stocking up a head ahead of the most important holiday in China, the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival.
Traditionally the holiday marks the largest mass migration of humans each year. In China, major cities MT=empty out as hundreds of millions travel back to their home provinces. But last year's outbreak in Wuhan coincided with the start of the Chinese New years. and they brought made for a perfect storm, packed train stations like this one in Beijing combined with a rapidly spreading virus. This year the government is urging and in some cases even ordering people not to travel.
Wang is among one of the millions, sacrified sacrificing precious time with family this holiday following the government guidance to stay foot put.
We`ll have to make a little bit of sacrifice for from everyone to keep a us safe.
While China's towering touted it`s stricts in and seemingly effective containment efforts, We think cost-efforts recent cluster outbreaks have resulted in the government`s travel restrictions.
already All ready in the first 3 days of the annual travel rush, passenger will real rail trips permanent plummeted more than 70%.
The normally packed train stations are now itally eerily empty. It seems that many are following the government's suggestion to not travel and some state-owned companies are even paying their employees a few hundreds dollars, encouraging them not to return to their hometown and stay instead to use the holiday time to explore this the city in which they live and work .
But some are still determined to travel home.
By video chat, we spoke with 21 year Dan Di. Not his real name as because he doesn't want to get in trouble for criticizing the government. He just wrapped up 21 days of quarantine which included heavy surveillance right ouside his friend's front door. All to travel home for the Chinese New Year which he said says this is deeply personal for migrant workers.
As for those who choose to stay like Wang, they are still finding ways to celebrate. Asking her parents and sisters over video chat, for their advice on cooking the Chinese new year dinner, amid a meal she, and millions of others will eat separated from loved ones. As China works to halt a decades long tradition of mass migration, so as to prevent a repeat of last year's rapid spread of the virus.
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