Some welcome opportunity to beat heavy crowds, relax among friends
Usually, when people decide to live in a foreign country, two contrasting factors are uppermost in their minds - work opportunities and distance from family and friends.
Shanghai has the largest expat population on the Chinese mainland. Government statistics show that approximately 173,000 called the city home at the end of 2012, an increase of almost 7 percent on the previous year.
"Before (I came to) China, I used to do ice hockey and jogging, but since I came to Beijing, I don't do them anymore."
Every few weeks, Lu Jinhua's family meets for dinner at a restaurant close to her home in Beijing's Chaoyang district. But the happy mealtime almost always ends with an unhappy scene: Her children will insist that Lu leaves the table before she can embarrass them by asking to take the leftover food home in takeaway bags.
As his black cat leaned toward him, Chirarab sat on a bed with his legs crossed, wondering why his son chose to end his life in a premeditated self-immolation.
The first thing Zheng Tiancheng saw at the scene of the accident was a pale hand sticking out from the debris. Here, a wisp of black hair was visible in the rubble. There, a knee stuck out at an odd angle. Lower down in the valley, more than a dozen vehicles lay wrecked among the crushed concrete and twisted steel.
In ancient times, the Chinese burned bamboo stems filled with gunpowder to create small explosions and scare away evil spirits. That tradition has been retained as a part of the celebrations for Spring Festival, the country's biggest annual holiday.
Every year, at this time, millions of Chinese embark on the world's biggest travel rush - the trek home.
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