Tag Archives: Spring Festival Rush

Property purchase regulations updated; first down payment rises

The latest regulations are out to control housing prices: A second property purchase requires first installments be 60% of the total price, and third property purchases has been forbidden altogether.

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Spring Festival travel fever begins; Ministry of Transport responds to “toll-fee incident”

The case of Shi Jianfeng has been in papers a lot lately. A reporter from the Beijing News tried to get a response from a high official in the Transport Ministry (交通部). First, the issue of Beijing traffic jams is addressed:

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Kids in the train station

Shenyang Evening News has photos of cute kids waiting to go home for the Spring Festival. Also, a look back at the Spring Festival Rush over the years.

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Hu Jintao talks about ticket scarcity

President Hu Jintao instructed the railway ministry to use their brains to come up a solution for the Spring Festival Rush.

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How to get a ticket home for the holidays

A bit of advice on how to score a seat on a crowded Spring Festival train.

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Spring Festival travel season

The Spring Festival travel season official began on Sunday, and Steven Lin from Youku.com alerted us to this video of the chaos outside the railway station in Hefei, Anhui.

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Multiple murder suspect arrested in Wuhan

A man who is suspected of murdering eight people on January 5th in Suizhou, Hubei Province was seized yesterday in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province.

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