“在今年春节前十天北京地区需要搭火车回家的,平均每天将达四万八千人,比平常的旅客数量增加四倍。”人民日报副总编辑范荣康于1957年1月7日发表这篇社论文章时,他完全无法想象,日均四万八千人的客运流量尚不足五十年后北京站的一个零头,他也更加无法想到,“春运”从此作为一个关系国计民生的大问题登上了中国历史舞台。20世纪80年代中后期,珠三角地区迎来开发热潮,吸引大量农民工进城务工。1989年初春,几百万农民南下产生了爆发性的集聚流动,中国第一次 “In the first ten days of the Spring Festival this year, the Beijing area needs to go home by train. On average, it will reach 48,000 per day, a fourfold increase over the usual number of tourists.” Fan Rongkang, deputy editor-in-chief of People’s Daily, January 7, 1957 When he published this editorial, he could not imagine that the daily flow of 48,000 passengers was still less than 50 years after Beijing Railway Station a fraction of the more he could not think of, “Spring Festival” from that as a relationship The major issue of national economy and the people’s livelihood boarded the stage of Chinese history. In the mid and late 1980s, the Pearl River Delta region ushered in the development boom, attracting a large number of migrant workers to work in cities. In the early spring of 1989, millions of peasants went south to create an explosive agglomeration flow, the first time in China