Chinesische Passagiere, die Rückkehr aus dem Chinesischen Neujahrsfest oder Spring Festival zu arbeiten Masse die Ganyu Fernverkehr Bus Station in Lanzhou city
Chinese passengers who return to work from the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival crowd the Ganyu Long-distance Bus Station in Lianyungang city, east China's Jiangsu province, 24 February 2015. Millions of travellers returning home for work and school yesterday (24 February 2015) were hampered by long traffic jams, highway closures and flight delays as the week-long national Lunar New Year holiday came to an end. Highways into Beijing were heavily congested as the number of travellers peaked for the return trip of the hectic holiday travel season, the largest annual human migration in the world. Thousands were stuck in afternoon traffic on one section of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway in central Henan province, where vehicles were caught for up to four hours in queues several kilometres long, state broadcaster CCTV reported. On one highway in Shanxi province, an accident in a tunnel caused a traffic jam that stretched more than 10km. Early morning heavy fog brought visibility down to less than 200 metres in parts of Sichuan province, shutting several highways until it dispersed at about 11am. Buses to Chongqing and several other cities were cancelled, while in Chengdu the fog delayed more than 100 flights, leaving more than 8, 000 passengers stranded at the airport, news website People.com.cn reported. Snowfalls in northeastern provinces, such as Heilongjiang and Liaoning, caused temporary airport closures.
