Holiday travel has already begun for the Chinese New Year celebration, which officially begins February 7 and ends on February 15, 2008. It is estimated that over 18 million people will travel over the holiday during what has been labeled "the biggest mass migration on the planet". Holiday celebrations may last for several weeks around the actual dates.
Unusual large amounts of snow and cold temperatures have hampered travel leaving as many as 100,000 people stranded. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has ordered Chinese officials to go into “Anti-Disaster” mode and help with snow removal as seen in this Getty Images from an article from the BBC entitled “Snow hampers China New Year plans”.
The climate of China is very similar to that of North Carolina. Their seasons coincide with ours as well as their temperatures.
The holiday affects factory production for up to three weeks under normal conditions. It will be interesting to see how the added weather obstacles affect their schedule.
(Information from ABC Nightly News, January 28, 2008)
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