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hey everyone it's alex here and well
happy new years lunar new year spring
festival chinese new year's the year of
the tiger that's right you guys are
getting the point right
it's a massive holiday and in fact the
world's largest migration on the planet
a lot of chinese people go home to visit
their friends visit their families so
guys last night was my i'll call it
first new year's eve of the chinese new
years if that makes sense i spent time
with some friends gathering around the
tv watching the gala event on television
now that's a big thing a lot of families
gather on the tv just like you know you
are in the western countries you wait
for the ball to drop in new york well
people were waiting for their cities to
be mentioned during these gala events so
people in changsha were hoping to see
chencha or chengdu or chongqing so let's
clear up a couple of things why is
chinese new year's also called spring
festival well it symbolizes family unity
and honors the past and present
generations starts from the beginning of
spring we got that yes or the lunar new
year is the grandest festival in china
with a seven day long holiday during
this period is dominated by iconic red
lanterns loud fireworks massive bouquets
and parades you bet they are imagine
having thanksgiving christmas new years
all in one shot as the day progresses as
that fog lifts and things are going to
get going here in chongqing i'm going to
bring you guys along for the ride and
maybe we can get down to the central
train station you want to stick around
for that
okay we're going to go under the mask
here because i'm getting into the
city center here liberation monument is
basically the center of chongqing where
people come to spend time with families
and friends on all the signs
you name it it's everywhere in the town
on the lamp posts and lots of really
nice happy new year greetings people all
want their shots in front and yes those
are real flowers
well you guys are probably wondering
what these blue signs mean well it
pretty much says
wear a mask
don't gather around too close because
kovac prevention and cooperate with the
local authorities
no problem guys during this holiday
period we use an application of course
all year called wechat well in your
conversations this little red packet
appears i'm kind of like what is that
now for the first time when i got that i
was like oh somebody maybe sent me a new
year's greeting well you press on the
little packet and voila
money appears oh god i gotta love it
it's hilarious
interesting numbers like eight
eight eight could mean prosperity or
good luck or things like that you know
as a friendly gesture we'll send one
another
and i gotta tell you i have never felt
so welcomed to a city that i have here
in junction china now what do i mean by
that people say how are you they
actually invite you out they actually
care to see what your perspectives or
your opinions are about china or around
the world do you want to discover the
city someone will show you do you want
to see a new bridge people
are actually really making me feel
comfortable
so guys as i was saying there's a lot of
china outside of china and this holiday
continues to grow where i've been
traveling around the world
i see it getting bigger more celebrated
very well-deserved break
for a country that is the warehouse to
the world that produces massive amount
of food for the world that has been very
responsible during this pandemic well
it's a beautiful day here in chongqing
besides the rain and i'm going to try to
get over to the train station here and
show you some real goodies of where we
can travel from this mega city of over
30 million people i got a few gems lined
up that you guys want to watch a little
bit of drone and a little bit of
festivities at night stay in touch
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what brings me here chongqing's railway
station if you're an international
audience this is china's largest and the
world's largest migration pretty much
the whole country goes on holidays we're
gonna give some statistics to you guys
that are gonna blow your mind here on
how incredible a train station like this
and one of china's largest city this is
chongqing how does one of the biggest
cities in china get all its people home
maybe we take an airplane maybe we take
the cars wow this is one of the largest
rail grids in
the world pay attention because we're
going to be rolling through some cities
you probably haven't heard of but
they're definitely bigger than the size
of los angeles new york paris london
madrid you name it here we go if i want
to take a one hour and 18 minute train
ride i'm gonna roll into the chengdu
population 20.8 million wow chengdu home
of the panther hello everybody in
chengdu there another province shanksy
province to that wonderful beautiful
city of xi'an that's going to take me
five hours 13 million people and you
want to know the price to go there ready
for it five and a half hour bullet train
ride to an amazing city of xi'an 400 rmb
wuhan 270 rmb to go to wuhan that's in a
completely other province of hubei
province
another city of 10 million people
chengdu 20 million xi'an 13 million
wuhan 12.4 million chiang sa 10 million
kunming 8.46 million well i was told one
of the most beautiful cities in china
all of this is possible with the
investment of what china has done the
chongqing rail station and the fantastic
high-speed rail network that we have
here so what we're going to do is we're
going to walk into this beautiful
building behind us here and we're going
to kind of see how you get to see your
friends or how do you get to see your
families in record times on record
trains going across this country at
speeds reaching 360 kilometer an hour
fantastic let's go okay guys we're still
in a world pandemic here of course china
has a zero covet policy mask is a
requirement here is how they set out the
safest way in the world's largest
migration everybody's going in everyone
has their health code about the health
code this is a live application this
isn't just some application put on your
phone to look pretty this is serious
business here in china here's my health
code here's a individual here that's
checking it from the health authorities
we call it the health department this
contact tracing app is very important to
everyone people show their identity
cards to get on the train and it's
pretty much a paperless uh system here
this is security
they're coming up there okay thank you
thank you wow
that wasn't so bad getting inside the
train station here let's have a look at
everybody this is amazing but you can
see
a lot of people i have not been to a
train station in my country that had so
much seats as this there's a little map
of the train station and these are the
coin operated machines just kidding no
these are the ticket machines what a way
to travel guys i mean seriously wouldn't
you like to have the world's largest
bullet train and world largest rail
network ah boy oh boy is new year's
gonna be a great time here in china
let's go out and have a look at some of
the trains okay now guys don't laugh at
me when i say wow it's sure nice to take
an escalator down to the railway tracks
now you might think that i'm being
sarcastic but actually
not in china here the infrastructure is
pretty much we'll call it door-to-door
or end to end a very clean station
immaculate and spotless look at how
beautiful that is there's some trains
heading off to other destinations in the
distance there this is how it's done
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well that's it for me here in beautiful
the fantastic train station we're gonna
fly around china for sights and sounds
of the beautiful new years enjoy the
view everyone
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