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Inscribed Spring Festival as intangible heritage in 2024
Every winter, China empties its cities. Some 9 billion passenger journeys—more than the total global population—occur over 40 days as hundreds of millions of migrant workers return to their home villages for Spring Festival. This is Chunyun, the largest annual human migration on Earth.
Updated May 23
Lead coordinator of global Education for All initiatives
In 1970, fewer than half the world's teenagers attended secondary school. By 2017, more than three-quarters did.
Updated May 22
Active coordinator of global literacy efforts
In 1820, roughly 88% of humanity could not read; today roughly 87% can. This shift, driven by two centuries of compulsory schooling laws, cheap printing, and global campaigns, gave more than 5 billion people a skill fewer than 100 million possessed then.
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