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World's largest annual human migration

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Completed final rehearsal for 2026 Spring Festival Gala; broadcast scheduled February 16

Every winter, China empties its cities. Some 9 billion passenger journeys—more than the total global population—occur over 40 days as hundreds of millions of migrant workers return to their home villages for Spring Festival. This is Chunyun, the largest annual human migration on Earth, and it transforms not just Chinese society but global supply chains that depend on Chinese manufacturing.

Updated Feb 3