Spring Festival, celebrating the start of the Chinese Lun

ar New Year, is unique beyond being the most important festival in the world’s most populous country.

Not only is it the longest holiday that most workers in China are entitled to, it also pr

oduces the largest annual human population movement in the world, th

anks to the age-old tradition of family reunions that are at the center of the occasion.

This year, the Year of the Pig, which is strongly believed to be associated with good fortune, has seen hundreds of millions

of workers based in cities and big towns returning to their smaller towns and villages of origin to reunite a

nd feast with their families－including their parents, and, for many, also their spouses and children. The official fo

recast is that this year, nearly 3 billion trips will be generated during the 40-day travel rush from Jan 21 to March 1.

While it might not be so obvious, this huge social phenomenon both shapes and is shaped by the sheer size and dis

tribution of China’s population linked to births, deaths and migration, and the way these three sets of vital events interact.

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According to a report by Hong Kong’s Dagong Documents Collection Media on Jan

uary 21, Wu Jiyun, a little-known bikini climber in Taiwan’s mo

untaineering industry, was recently killed in a cross-cutting failure to challenge Mabolas.

According to the article, Wu Jiyun recently attempted to challenge Taiwan’s famous “Mabolas Crosscut” alone, but fe

ll down unexpectedly. Nearly two days after Wu Jiyun was trapped, rescue workers from Taiwan arrived at the ac

cident site at 12:10 noon on the 21st, but found that Wu Jiyun had no signs of life. Taiwanese media reported that r

escuers found her body at Wu Jiyun’s last reward site, when she was clearly frozen and believed to have died.

Wu Jiyun, 36, entered the mountain from Xinyi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan on

November 11, and was scheduled to descend from Dalin Road on June 24. Unexpectedly, she crashed into a valley ne

ar Banju Mountain and asked for help from friends on September 19. The local fire brigade had applied for helicopter a

erial search and rescue, but was unable to enter the mountain due to bad weather. The search and rescue team th

en carried out a carpet search and touched Wu Jiyun at 12:10 noon on the 21st, but she had no obvious signs of life. At

present, search and rescue teams are studying ways to transport their remains down the hill.

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