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January 28, 2006

Spring Festival | Chinese New Year Statistics

Filed under: Shanghai Life — Shanghai @ 5:29 am

Walking in [tag]Nanjing[/tag] Xi Lu today I realized this must be the quietest day in the year, at least by daylight. The darker it gets, the more fireworks will be heard. Hardly any traffic as everyone is at home preparing their food, getting together with their families and enjoy their free time.

Many of these people traveled far and for a long time on crowded buses, trains and planes. Some even used diapers to stand the [tag]travel[/tag].

Some [tag]Spring Festival[/tag] [tag]Statistics[/tag]:

  • 2 billion + is the total number of passengers in [tag]China[/tag] in this period
  • 10 million of these are expected to arrive in [tag]Shanghai[/tag]
  • 170.000 is the peak daily flow of passengers through Shanghai Railway Station
  • 25 million is spend on fireworks in Shanghai
  • 8 million of these fireworks is bought from a legal source

I wish all readers of this blog a happy year of the [tag]Dog[/tag].

source: 8days

1 Comment »

  1. Happy year of the Dog to you as well, be careful with fireworks, dogs usually don’t like it very much…

    Comment by Frank — January 28, 2006 @ 11:31 am

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