How Hangzhou Is Preparing for the G20 Summit
Top political leaders from around the world will gather in Hangzhou, Zhejiang at the start of next...
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Map Visualizes Chinese New Year Migration
As the Chinese New Year (January 31) quickly approaches, an expected 3.6 billion trips will be...
China Expects 3.6 Bln Trips Over Lunar New Year
With the Year of the Snake reaching its tail end, China has now officially...
Officials Look For Urban Gridlock Solution
The Wall Street Journal’s Colum Murphy checks in from Wuhan, where chronic traffic...
Golden Week 2013: Travel Woes and Unruly Behavior
Beginning each year around the anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the 7-day national holiday...
Volunteers Flocking to Quake Zone Asked to Turn Back
Since Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
‘Chinese-Style’ Crackdown vs. ‘Chinese-Style’ Crossing
Global Times’ Chang Meng describes an ongoing campaign against road safety violations as typical of short-term, unsustainable crackdowns whose effects barely outlast the campaigns themselves. “You insane people,...
Hailing in Vain: Beijing’s Taxicab Crisis
Anyone who has spent time in Beijing in recent years knows how difficult it can be to flag down a cab in the massive metropolis, especially during the city’s infamously congested rush hours. One reason for the apparent...
Coldest Winter in 28 Years Hits China
The cold front that hit southern China a week ago is likely to continue, creating pressure on the country’s transportation systems. Liza Lin at Bloomberg reports: Snow, ice and fog have caused havoc on the nation’s roads...
Minibus Accident Leaves 10 Dead, 10 Injured
After a bus crash that left 11 schoolchildren dead in Jiangxi, another accident involving an overloaded minibus killed ten people, five of whom were children, from The South China Morning Post: At least 10 people, including five...
Holiday Hordes: Good for the Economy?
CDT previously reported on China’s super rich still going all out with their Golden Week travel plans. The Wall Street Journal reports Golden Week hordes may be a good sign for the economy: A total of 34.2 million tourists...
Toll-free Holiday Traffic Ends in Gridlock
As China commenced a week-long National Day vacation known as Golden Week, authorities decided to do car travelers a favor and make the roads toll-free. With train tickets for the long holiday selling out fast, and an increasing...
Beijing's Air Quality: Crazy Bad vs. Slightly Polluted
The Los Angeles Times’ Barbara Demick explains how the air in Beijing can be “slightly polluted” according to Chinese measurements, but “beyond index” (formerly “crazy bad”) according to...
Beijing to Track Citizens with Their Cell Phones
Ostensibly to control traffic congestion, Chinese authorities is unveiling a new plan to track residents via their cell phones. From Thenextweb: Purportedly to improve Beijing’s public travel and reduce traffic congestion, the...
In China, Traffic Jam Is Windfall for Enterprising Villagers
Villagers along a congested freeway in Guizhou took their mercantile mettle to the streets, as one New York Times reporter writes: Compared with some of the more spectacular recent traffic jams in China, among them a 60-mile...
Beijing Embraces Car-Free Day in Traffic Jams
With the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday period in full-swing, Beijing traffic has come to a standstill, even as the city promoted a “car-free day” on Wednesday. From China Daily: “I don’t...
China to Have 200 Million Vehicles by 2020
China’s recent marathon traffic jams may be a sign of things to come. From AFP: The number of vehicles on China’s roads will more than double to at least 200 million by 2020, a top official was quoted Monday as...
Thousands of Vehicles Stuck in 120km China Traffic Jam
BBC reports that another massive traffic jam is clogging roads in Inner Mongolia, just days after a widely-reported jam was eased: A state television reporter said the gridlocked section of the road, in the north-eastern region...
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