Columbia Global Reports

2/11/2016, Will Doig

Why China’s ‘Tide of Return’ Migration Is a Good Thing

On February 1, at China's Guangzhou Railway Station—a battle royale on a good day—a snowstorm stranded tens of thousands of passengers. The timing couldn’t have been worse. It was the beginning of the world’s largest annual human migration, the Lunar New Year, when reuniting Chinese families run up three billion trips in a matter of… more