Our geography of work

For centuries the earth’s biggest annual migration occurred when two million wildebeests accompanied by large numbers of zebra and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, eland and impala trekked across Africa searching for fresh grazing and water every May. But after Deng Xiaoping catalysed the Chinese job creation explosion in 1978, the biggest migration now happens in February and involves humans — 340 million people get on a train to go home every Chunyun, China’s two-week lunar New Year holiday. This migration brings China’s economy to a halt as workers evacuate cities for their villages.

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