The Lunar New Year travel crunch this year was worse than ever. It's deeply worrying because it underlines the distortions in China's urbanisation.
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- Mar 3, 2013
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Travel agencies in Jiangsu say their business has suffered after the central government waived highway tolls during the Lunar New Year holiday.
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In big cities such as Guangzhou, huge queues formed at the entrances to main train stations, as shown by texts and photos posted on Sina Weibo.
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