The link below is about the terrible snow and ice storms that have hit southern and eastern China the last few days right before Chinese New Year celebrations.The stories mention that over 100,000 people have been stranded near the Guangzhou train station alone.
Chinese New Year is as big, or bigger, than Christmas in other parts of the world. Some describe the travel that occurs around it as the largest movement of humans on the planet.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvk7Cm_LiUKmk09LgSM7wXayDzlwD8UEQ9400
Today 500,000 members of the Chinese army are helping to clear roads and try to get things moving. The government has also suggested that the many of the 30 million migrant workers, or "min gong" stay in Guangdong province and not try to get home. This is a terrible situation for many workers who only get to see their families one time per year.
If workers that do get home have trouble getting back, or this situation causes some workers to decide they don't need or want to be migrants any more, it may help to accelerate the movement of factories north and west, closer to local populations of labor.
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