Thanksgiving Celebrations Have Nothing on Chinese New Year
By sheer numbers, the Asian festival dwarfs the U.S holiday
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The Lunar New Year festival, which kicks off this week, is the biggest in Asia. Here's how it stacks up against the Thanksgiving holiday in three charts:
About 2.8 billion trips will be made in China, including 295 million on board trains, according to government estimates. In the U.S., AAA Travel had projected last year that 46.3 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving weekend, with more than 89 percent of those journeys by car.