East DEPEND®s on West

Currently my friend Dan is on a trip around Asia. He started in China and has been to all the sites.. Hooters, The Hooters Tree..


Well, I guess he must have brought some western culture with him in the form of DEPEND®, because how else could you explain this news from China?

Alongside food and fire crackers, Chinese are adding a new item to their lunar New Year shopping: Adult diapers. Sales have soared ahead of the holiday as travelers prepare for long trips home aboard trains so crowded that even the toilets are jammed with people, newspapers said Tuesday.


In Foshan, a southern industrial city with a large migrant population, supermarkets report diaper sales have risen 50 percent since the main travel season began on Jan. 14th.

The problem arises from the need to sell twice as many tickets as there are train seats to accommodate the crush of travelers. Those without seats must find some place, any place, to put themselves, including in overhead racks, between cars, and in the usually stinking toilets.

Chinese will this year make around 2 billion plane, train, ship and automobile journeys during the 40 days around the holiday, which this year falls on Jan. 29. Trains carry around 4 million people per day over the period.