Mapping Three Billion Journeys

This calendar week simply about 2.9 billion trips volition live on made inward mainland People's Republic of China yesteryear people travelling to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day alongside their families. You tin run across where in addition to when they move during this year's Spring Festival on this interactive map from Baidu.

Baidu's mobile maps has over 350 1000000 active users in addition to receives over 10 billion place requests every day. This provides Baidu alongside a unique insight into the movements of the Chinese population over the vacation week.

The chun yun (spring movement) of people is visualized on the Baidu Migration map. If you lot pick out private cities on the map you lot tin persuasion where residents are travelling to in addition to from. The orangish lines on the map demonstrate people travelling into a metropolis in addition to the yellowish lines demonstrate people leaving the city.

The map sidebar likewise shows the peak 10 cities where the largest numbers of Chinese travelers are moving to in addition to from. You tin likewise pick out the private cities from these lists to run across where residents are going in addition to where they are coming from.