Chunyun versus lockdown

• 作者: Sune Lehmann
• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（1）
• 所属期刊栏目: RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
• 页码范围: 2-3
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Across the world,the news of COVID-19 was followed by 'lockdowns' that lim-ited societal activity and mobility to a greater or lesser degree.In China,how-ever,the situation was unique because the travel lockdown occurred in the middle of the year's most hectic travel season oc-curring around Chinese Lunar New Year(chunyun). It is worth spending a moment to appreciate how massive chunyun is as an event.Chunyun,or 'Spring Trans-port'in Chinese,is literally the world's largest annual human migration[1],in 2016 estimated to result in almost 3 billion journeys[2].It starts around 15 days before New Year's Day and lasts for about 40 days.