Unbelievable Photos From China's Traffic Jam After 7-Day Holiday

 

As China's "Golden Week," a 7-day public holiday celebrating the country's national day, came to a close on Wednesday Oct 07,2015, Chinese citizens flocked home -- at the same time.

Around 2 P.M on Tuesday Oct 06,2015 hundreds of thousands of northbound vehicles got stuck on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau (Jinggang'ao) expressway

The 1,400-mile-long expressway runs between Beijing and Shenzhen, and connects along the way to other major cities in the Hebei, Henan and Guangdong provinces.

The jam apparently occurred because of bottleneck created by a new checkpoint in the town of Liulihe, about 35 miles southwest of Beijing

Aerial photos show cars spanning some 25 lanes having to converge into just a few