NOTE: See "Background" and "Resource Links" below the questions for some of the answers.

1. a) What is the population of China?
b) What is the population of the U.S.?
c) How many Chinese will be traveling home for the Lunar New Year?
d) How many of those traveling home will do so by train?

2. a) Why are so many people so far from home?
b) How often do these people go home?

3. Why is it increasingly difficult to purchase train tickets over Chinese New Year?

4. What do people do to celebrate Chinese New Year?