Currently its leading up to the Chinese New Year holiday period with people heading home for celebrations with family. Building and landscape construction has stopped on many sites, most of the projects I have been working on had a rush until Wednesday (11 January) and now they are ghost sites with not a soul to be seen besides the security guards. Some sites have people still working up until the official holiday but these are often projects on a tight(often behind) schedule.
The workers have head home for a one month break and won’t be back until the first or second week of February to start another year of construction in China. Chinese New Year is early this year falling on the 22 January. The official holiday is 22-28 January but many people take extra days to head home or travel. Millions of China’s construction workers head back home (to homes all across China) for the New Year. Trains and Buses will be full of people happy to be on holiday and heading home to see loved ones they haven’t seen for a year or often more. Many will return to construction in February, but others will use the money saved from year/s of hard work to start something new in their home towns.