Hundreds of millions travel for Lunar New Year holiday

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

BEIJING -- They're crowding planes, trains and buses, unfazed by SARS and price gougers. As the Lunar New Year arrives, hundreds of millions of Chinese are bound for home or holiday -- a mass movement of humanity that dwarfs the Muslim hajj.

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