In Chinese, 春运 (chūnyùn) refers to the extremely high traffic load surrounding Spring Festival each year when millions of Chinese make the trip home to visit their families and spend time in their hometowns. This year, 31.58 million are expected to travel, clogging China's roads and railways and testing the resolve and patience of workers and travelers alike.
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Gallery: Millions head home for Spring Festival
Photo: Math test with Chinese characteristics
Okay, not a math test per se, but rather taken from a high school math competition. Still, anyone have any idea just what is going on in this picture?
Photos: Fake "rubber" bouncing eggs found in Shandong
2012 is looking to be par-for-the-course in China's food industry. So far we've already seen cancerous peanuts, flies mushed into pork jerky, and condoms both in yogurt and made of yogurt. This time around, the fake egg scare has come back again with a vengeance, as a man in Yantai, Shandong has unfortunately discovered.
Photos: Nanning police arrest 14 "street girls," all are actually men
In Guangxi, Nanning police recently arrested 14 "girls" who were patrolling the streets looking for customers, and discovered all of them were actually men.
Gallery: The children left behind by China's migrant workers
Similar to the Empty Chairs gallery published a few months ago, a gallery put together by Xinhua highlights the "One Family, Two Places" (一家两地) phenomenon of China's migrant workers. Approximately 58 million children are left behind by parents who move away to seek employment. Migrants are often barred from bringing their families due to the Hukou household registration system.
Gallery: China's hottest internet icons of 2011
The Chinese internet is full of people who, though often entirely undeserving of attention, receive copious amounts of it for seemingly no good reason. Whether arriving at momentary fame through careful corporate promotion or sheer dumb luck and timing, each of these individuals has managed to secure a place in the Internet Hall of Fleeting Fame
6 pandas raised in captivity scheduled for wild release
Six giant pandas, aged two to four years old, are scheduled to leave captivity and enter the wild on January 11, 2012. The pandas - named Xingrong, Xingya, Gongzai, Yingying, Zhizhi and Qiq - were deemed the most fit for release by a test that evaluated the physical condition and genetic origins of 108 animals housed in the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
Photo of the Day: The dumbest cabbie in Shanghai?
Around noon today this photo was uploaded to Weibo showing a taxi stuck halfway down the stairs of the Datong Pedestrian tunnel entrance. Luckily there were no injuries, unless you count the driver's pride.
First picture of China's carrier captured by satellite
The first photo of China's new carrier, formerly known as Varyag, comes from a satellite picture taken on December 8th by US company DigitalGlobe.
Photos: River in Luoyang turns bright red from illegal dumping
On Tuesday, the Jian River (涧河) in the city of Luoyang in Henan province (洛阳) turned into a bright sanguine shade of red, resembling nothing so much as a biblical river of blood. However, rather than marking the occasion of Damien's descent upon central China, the cause of the river becoming apocalyptic in character was red dye being dumped into the city's storm water pipe network, by two illegal dye workshops.
Watch: Capitalism and Communism in China's Capital
A lovely new visual essay by Dai Sugano, an Emmy Award-winning photojournalist with the San Jose Mercury News (Silicon Valley's hometown paper), portrays the experience of arriving in China for the first time, and being confronted with its myriad contradictions.
Photos: Remembering the massacre at Nanjing, 74 years later
We'll end our coverage today with a series of photos remembering the 300,000 who lost their lives 74 years ago in Nanjing during the uncertain and tumultuous time that was the Second World War.
Photos: Traditional European Christmas - Shanghai style
Since 2007 Paulaner Brauhaus has brought a taste of a Bavarian Christmas market to Shanghai. Christmas markets have their roots in medieval Bavaria, when locals would gather in the snowy public squares of their hometowns to drink wine, eat bratwurst, chat with their neighbors, and buy small gifts from numerous stands.
Photos: Garbage scavengers scrounge up a living in Hebei landfill
Migrant workers and elderly digging through waste bins for plastic bottles in Shanghai is no uncommon sight, but in Xingtai City in Hebei, over 70 people spend their lives scavenging around a garbage dump to earn their daily wages.
Photos: Jeremy Clarkson and James May spotted filming Top Gear in Beijing
Some say he has chopsticks for fingers, and cries tears of soy sauce... all we know is, he's called the Stig. With a bad taste left in our mouth from China's sad attempt at Top Gear earlier this year, it appears the good old boys from the original BBC Top Gear have finally made the trek to Beijing to show us how it's done.
In Pictures: 2011 Toray Cup Shanghai International Marathon
On Sunday morning 26,000 runners participated in the 15th Shanghai International Marathon, running either in the full marathon of 42.195km, a half-marathon, or a fun run. The event saw a 20% growth in participation this year, with 6,000 people registered for the full marathon and 8,500 for the half-marathon. Foreigner participation grew by 51% (to about 21% of total registrants), setting a record for foreign participation in a Chinese marathon. A Kenyan (Chinese press are just calling him "Willy") took first prize in the full marathon with a time of 2:10:21. Chinese teenager Zhao Ran won the half-marathon with a time of 1:05:29.
Photos: First snowfall hits Beijing, winter is coming here!
Beijing residents woke up to a smatter of snowfall (as announced around Twitter: Acid snow!) this morning, and those of us in Shanghai are likewise chilling out in our apartments and offices.
Photos: 970,000 sit for the 2012 China civil service exam
On November 27, nearly one million students sat for the 2012 Chinese civil service exam at 31 different test sites simultaneously.
Photos: Changsha's nightlife on West Liberation Road
Who knew Changsha had such to a vibrant nightlife? Certainly not us. Photojournalist Yang Shuhuai (杨抒怀) of the Xiaoxiang Morning Post (潇湘晨报) recently spent time inside and outside of clubs along Changsha's Jiefang Xi Lu (which translates as West Liberation Road), to capture a variety of nightlife ephemera, including dancefloor beauties, bathroom funny business, hookups, and the downtime hours of China's own G-String Divas. Oh, and a little bit of vomit too, for good measure.
Photos: Woman sweeps the streets of Wenzhou with 3-year-old son in tow
42-year-old Hubei native Zeng Yueying arrived in Wenzhou with her husband in 2006 to look for work. Three years ago, they began working as road sweepers. One day last year, a friend from their hometown hid their son as a joke, sending them into a panic attack when they thought that someone had abducted their son. Since then, Zeng has kept her 3-year-old son, Liu Shuai, by her side wherever she goes, even when she's at work sweeping the city streets.
Photos: Anhui's love hotel with a difference
A love hotel has opened in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. The hotel is equipped with rooms of different styles and S&M toys, including handcuffs and other items.
Photos: Yao Ming's face photoshopped throughout the ages
If you're at all in tune with the 'nets then you're probably already exceedingly familiar with the infamous Yao Ming face above, also known as the "Fuck That" face.
Photos: Huge 20 car pileup on Shanghai-Kunming Expressway
November 21st, five people were killed in a massive chain of rear-end accidents involving 20 cars in Hunan, Dongkou, on the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway
4,500 march against land grab in Lufeng, Guangdong
Thousands of protestors from Wukan village marched today in what appears to be a well-organised, peaceful demonstration in Guangdong's Lufeng city. They carried colourful banners with slogans against corrupt government officials and dictatorship as they demanded for the return of their farmland:
Netizens post nude pictures after police probe Ai Weiwei for porn [NSFW]
Chinese netizens have begun stripping down to their birthday suits and posting their nude pictures on the internet after dissident-artist Ai Weiwei announced Friday that Beijing police were now investigating his assistant Zhao Zhao for "spreading pornography online". At the centre of the investigations appears to be a picture entitled "One Tiger, Eight Breasts" which Zhao took last year of Ai Weiwei and four women, all of them nude.
Photos: Numerous Guangdong departments coordinate to evict "nail house" family
Over 100 police officers backed by police cars, fire engines and ambulances from numerous departments worked together to end a year-long stalemate between the government and a "nail house" family in Guangdong's Yangqi village.
Gansu residents mourn children killed in school bus tragedy
Residents of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu, gathered spontaneously to mourn those who were killed in the school bus tragedy, in which a severely overloaded school bus collided with a truck, leaving more than 20 killed and dozens more injured.
Fury rises over Gansu school bus tragedy
We told you yesterday about a school bus tragedy in Zhengning (正宁) County of Qingyang (庆阳) City in Western China's Gansu province in which a minibus overcrowded with preschoolers crashed with a truck, killing 20 and injuring dozens. Public anger is now rising over the incident, which today topped the list of trending topics on Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging platform.
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