New Guangzhou film brings you inside a police station as the city copes with annual LNY exodus

John Kennedy

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John Kennedy is Canadian, and a longtime resident of southern China. As a veteran member of the Chinese online community, most notably through his six years as a former editor with Global Voices Online, John knows more than is useful about China today but enjoys sharing his findings on Twitter as @feng37 and @28wordslater.

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This past weekend, Guangzhou estimated more than a million people daily were leaving the city to race home for Lunar New Year, with nearly a fifth of passengers departing through Guangzhou Railway Station alone.

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On Monday this week, Guangzhou film director Zhou Hao dropped his latest documentary, Cop Shop, which offers the police view of the city's annual logistics challenge to send everyone home on time, online at Chinese video hosting site Youku. The hour-long film has since been posted to YouTube, so enjoy.