China is a country on the move— especially around its Lunar New Year holiday. This year, the holiday crush promises to be even heavier than before.

中国是一个“大迁徙”的国家，尤其是在春节假日左右。今年春运压力可能比以往都要大。

Government officials estimate that Chinese people will take to the air, roads and railways 3.62 billion times over a 40-day period around the nation’s most important holiday this year. The total is about 200 million more than last year—nearly three trips per person for this country of 1.3 billion—as people jostle their way home for family gatherings or to indulge their new-found passion for travel.

春节是中国最重要的节日，人们纷纷回家团聚或者外出旅行。中国政府官方预测，今年为期40天的春运期间，飞机、汽车、火车的客运总量将达36.2亿人次，比去年多2亿。算下来全国13亿人口平均每人乘车三次。

Getting tickets to all those would-be travelers is a daunting challenge that annually tries patience aswell as stamina. And it is the railway system that routinely is most unable to cope. Railways are the transport of choice for low-cost long-distance travel, and that’s where the ticketing system routinely falls down.

对于春运期间出行的旅客来说，购票无疑是个可怕的挑战，每年都试探着人们耐心和毅力的底线。通常来说铁道系统压力最大，火车是低成本的远距离交通方式，因而火车购票系统经常崩溃。

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