WUZHOU, China: The thrum of motorcycles echoes over a Chinese mountain road, where hundreds of thousands are shunning public transport to take the highway home during the world’s largest annual human migration.

China’s 245 million migrant workers—twice the entire popula–tion of Japan—generally have to travel on jam-packed trains or buses to get to their hometown to see their families for the Lunar New Year.

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