This weekend, throughout the country the semester break starts and the students all over China start swarming back into their hometowns to be with their families for a couple of weeks.
It´s like a smaller "Spring Festival", where normally half of China`s population is somehow on the move, mainly from bigger metropolitan areas to smaller home towns to visit old friend and mostly family. During semster break it`s "just" students, but their number has risen to almost 30.000.000 in the last ten years.
As a student in China, you don`t really have a choice where to live and stay during the semester - normally you get assigned a dormitory room on campus that you have to share with other students - one at least, if you´re lucky, but mostly with three, five or even seven others. Even if your family lives in the city where you study, you have to live in a dorm on campus. Needless to say that all student dorms are seperated by gender and get locked and the electricity gets switched off at around 11 pm.
With almost all students living on campus, universities become small towns, surrounded by a wall, surrounded by a bigger city. A city in a city.
And if this city`s student inhabitants all want to leave at the same time, the campus infrastructure reaches its limits. So China postal services for example had to set up stalls on campus and work extra shifts to get all student`s mail and luggage checked in - still students had to line up in long queues:
Although one has to admit that Chinese almost never travel light - I sometimes have a feeling there`s a nation-wide three-bag-check-in-minimum:
As domestic flight services in China increase, it opens up a new possibility for students to get home conveniently and quickly. Domestic airlines know about their potential new customers and some of them, in this picture China Southern Air, even offer check-in on campus and try to attract new customers with raffling free tickets:
It´s like a smaller "Spring Festival", where normally half of China`s population is somehow on the move, mainly from bigger metropolitan areas to smaller home towns to visit old friend and mostly family. During semster break it`s "just" students, but their number has risen to almost 30.000.000 in the last ten years.
As a student in China, you don`t really have a choice where to live and stay during the semester - normally you get assigned a dormitory room on campus that you have to share with other students - one at least, if you´re lucky, but mostly with three, five or even seven others. Even if your family lives in the city where you study, you have to live in a dorm on campus. Needless to say that all student dorms are seperated by gender and get locked and the electricity gets switched off at around 11 pm.
With almost all students living on campus, universities become small towns, surrounded by a wall, surrounded by a bigger city. A city in a city.
And if this city`s student inhabitants all want to leave at the same time, the campus infrastructure reaches its limits. So China postal services for example had to set up stalls on campus and work extra shifts to get all student`s mail and luggage checked in - still students had to line up in long queues:
Although one has to admit that Chinese almost never travel light - I sometimes have a feeling there`s a nation-wide three-bag-check-in-minimum:
As domestic flight services in China increase, it opens up a new possibility for students to get home conveniently and quickly. Domestic airlines know about their potential new customers and some of them, in this picture China Southern Air, even offer check-in on campus and try to attract new customers with raffling free tickets:
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