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Going home for lunar New Year
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For most rural migrants working in the city, Spring Festival is their only chance to go home to see their families. That's the reason for China's annual massive migration. Today our reporter tells us why so many people put up with the hardship.
Packing to go home. This is the moment that Song Wuchang and his wife Song Fengyun have been longing for. The couple comes from Henan province in Central China. He runs a small car repair business, and she works in a factory making power transformers. In their six years in Beijing, their thoughts have always been with their children.
Song said, "I miss my children very much. It's just because things are so difficult economically. Otherwise we would have gone back to see our children much earlier."
"People all want to return home for Spring Festival. We're definitely happy to go home. Our children called and asked us to go back well in advance and we promised them to return early."
The couple bought two hard seat tickets, the cheapest. They will spend 12 hours on the train and another 2 hours on the bus. That's a typical journey for many rural migrants.
Some nine hundred kilometers away from Beijing, at the Song home in Lingtou village, we meet their two children -- 13-year-old Mengmeng and 6-year-old Mengbo. Both go to school in town. Their grandmother takes care of them most of the time.
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