Track CNY Trips in Real Time with This Cool Baidu Map

The largest human migration in the world, known as Chunyun (春运), started on January 13. 

The period begins two weeks before Spring Festival and lasts for 40 days, during which Chinese citizens head back to their hometowns to celebrate the biggest holiday of the year.

To show just how many journeys are being made, Baidu developed a website a few years back that tracks every single trip across China. The data is constantly updating, and changes are made roughly every hour.

Here are some of the most popular destinations, as of January 25, 2017...

Most traveled routes:
1. Beijing – Shanghai
2. Xian – Beijng
3. Shenyang – Beijing
4. Zhengzhou – Beijing
5. Wuhan – Beijing
6. Shenzhen – Shanghai
7. Hefei – Shanghai
8. Shanghai – Lu’an
9. Zhengzhou – Shanghai
10. Shenzhen – Wuhan

Most popular arrival cities:

1. Beijing — 29 percent
2. Shanghai 19 percent
3. Chengdu — 8 percent
4. Guangzhou — 7 percent
5. Wuhan — 6 percent
6. Xian — 6 percent
7. Chongqing — 5 percent
8. Hangzhou — 5 percent
9. Shenyang — 5 percent
10. Shenzhen — 5 percent

Most popular departure cities:
1. Beijing — 24 percent
2. Shanghai — 16 percent
3. Shenzhen — 9 percent
4. Wuhan — 8 percent
5. Guangzhou — 8 percent
6. Zhengzhou — 7 percent
7. Shenyang — 6 percent
8. Chengdu — 6 percent
9. Tianjin — 5 percent
10. Harbin — 5 percent

Most popular routes to Shanghai:
1. Suzhou – Shanghai: 62.7 percent
2. Wuzhen – Shanghai: 15.5 percent
3. Beijing – Shanghai: 7.1 percent
4. Hefei – Shanghai: 3 percent 
5. Shenzhen – Shanghai: 2.6 percent
6. Chongqing – Shanghai: 2 percent
7. Wuhan – Shanghai: 1.9 percent
8. Chengdu – Shanghai: 1.9 percent
9. Xian – Shanghai: 1.7 percent
10. Xiamen – Shanghai 1.6 percent

Most popular destinations from Shanghai:

1. Shanghai – Suzhou: 28.1 percent
2. Shanghai – Lu’an: 21.8 percent 
3. Shanghai – Xinyang: 10.2 percent
4. Shanghai – Hangzhou: 8.7 percent 
5. Shanghai – Chongqing: 7 percent
6. Shanghai – Shangrao: 6.7 percent 
7. Shanghai ­– Heze: 5.5 percent
8. Shanghai – Huanggang: 5.5 percent 
9. Shanghai – Beijing: 3.7 percent 
10. Shanghai – Nanping: 2.8 percent

To check out the data for yourself, click here.