Mapping Chinese Novel Year

Every twelvemonth or together with therefore 2.8 meg trips are made past times Chinese people traveling dwelling to pass the Chinese New Year's Day alongside their families. Thanks to Baidu maps nosotros are able to meet when, where together with how they traveled. Baidu's mobile map application has over 350 meg active users together with receives over x billion place requests every day. This provides Baidu alongside a unique insight into the movements of the Chinese population over the Spring Festival.

Every twelvemonth Baidu releases its Qianxi (migration) visualization. This interactive map allows you lot to explore which national highways were the virtually congested over the Chinese New Year's Day Spring Festival. It equally good allows you lot to visualize the movements to together with from China's largest cities over the vacation period.

According to the map the peak congestion on China's national highways was on Feb 6th. On Feb 4th, the twenty-four hr stream earlier the Chinese New Year, the cities which saw the highest inflow of people returning dwelling for the New Year's Day were Chongqing, Chengdu together with Beijing respectively. On Feb fourth the cities which saw the highest outflows of people travelling dwelling were Beijing, Chengdu together with Shanghai respectively.