China’s search engine giant Baidu.com has been tracking the mass movement of people for the Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, since January 26.
The interactive map, which is updated hourly, has been logging the locations in which data requests were made to its maps service. Hundreds of thousands of apps users have used its location technologies.
The thicker, brighter lines are the busiest routes.
The top 10 cities with the largest influxes of travelers over the past eight hours: Beijing, Chongqing, Hengyang, Yulin, Ganzhou, Xinyang, Shangqiu, Binzhou, and Tianjin. |
Top 10 cities in which the population is leaving. |
The busiest routes. |