Chunyun: the world's largest migration

春运:世界最大的人口迁徙

Round Table China

2026-01-21

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Chunyun, the annual Spring Festival travel rush in China, is the world's largest human migration. Each year, it tests the absolute limits of the country's transportation network. In 2026, however, it will test something new: how data, platforms, and policy can fundamentally reshape the experience of mass mobility itself. / Is boredom good for us (15:25)? On the show: Niu Honglin, Steve & Fei Fei
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  • Every year, Chun Yun tests the limits of China's transport system.

  • In 2026, it also tests something else.

  • How data, platforms, and policy can reshape the experience of mass mobility.

  • With record-breaking passenger numbers,

  • we ask whether the system can cope well and whether it can respond intelligently.

  • And think about the last time you felt bored, not tired, not stressed, just bored.

  • No messages, no videos.

  • nothing urgent demanding your attention.

  • For many of us, that moment lasts only seconds before we instinctively reach for a screen.

  • But what

  • if someone told you that this discomfort is exactly what you and even your kid may need to learn how to think,

  • plan, and imagine on their own?

  • But before that,

  • or China's Spring Festival travel rush is often described as the world's largest annual human migration

  • because it is.