Woman spends nearly 5 hours per day, over $580 per month on commuting
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Some of the train tickets that Jiang Jingzi has purchased for commuting in 2016.[Photo: workercn.cn]

Cangzhou woman Jiang Jingzi recently hit the headlines for the huge sum she pays and long hours she spends every day commuting back and forth to Beijing.

Jiang generally spends more than 4,000 yuan (about 583 USD) per month for commuting, which is about one month's salary for many fresh university graduates.225 yuan (about 33 USD) is the total amount that Jiang spends commuting every single workday.

Jiang Jingzi dozes off on the train to Cangzhou in the evening on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2017.[Photo: workercn.cn]

Jiang has been commuting from Cangzhou, Hebei Province, to Beijing for about a year.

Each day, she gets up at around 6:10 am, and takes a taxi to the high-speed rail station in Cangzhou for 6:50am, which generally costs 15 yuan (about 2.2 USD).

Then she takes a high-speed train to Beijing South Railway Station, which leaves at 7:23am and takes 58 minutes to arrive.After that, Jiang rides the subway to her company, which costs 4 yuan (about 0.6 USD). Finally, she arrives at her company's office at around 9:15am.

Li Jinze (R), Jiang Jingzi's husband, comes to pick her up from the train station in Changzhou and brings her a rose for Valentine's Day.[Photo: workercn.cn]

After work, she does the whole thing in reverse, arriving back home at around 8:40pm.

Before moving to Cangzhou, Jiang had been working and living in Beijing since 2009, and got married a few years later in the city.In 2015, Jiang's husband was transferred to Cangzhou and so moved to the city, leaving his one-year-old baby, his parents and Jiang in Beijing.

Jiang Jingzi (middle) takes a metro to work during the morning rush hour in Beijing, February 16, 2017.[Photo: workercn.cn]

Half a year later, Jiang decided to move to Cangzhou with the rest of the family.

Jiang said even though she spends over 4,000 yuan on commuting, she still makes more money than she could earn in Cangzhou.

She agrees with her husband that the most important thing is being able to stay together as a family."She has done so much (for the family), I admire what she has done," Jiang's husband said.

Jiang Jingzi texts with a colleague through Wechat (a Chinese social media platform) on her way back home.[Photo: workercn.cn]

In November 2014, cri.cn reported the story of a woman who lives on the outskirt of Beijing who spent about 16 yuan (about 2.3 USD) per day, about 352 yuan (51 USD) per month on commuting to her office in the city, which included 12 yuan (about 1.8 USD) for tickets for 24km railway, and 4 yuan (about 0.6 USD) for tickets for public buses.

The average travel time to work in Beijing is 50 minutes, and the average distance that a person travels to work is 18.9km, CCTV News reported in January last year.According to a report released by Beijing Normal University, people in Beijing spent an average 97 minutes commuting back and forth in 2014.

Jiang Jingzi and her husband eating dinner at home, while her father-in-law (L) watches TV in his bedroom, at 8:50pm, February 14, 2017.[Photo: workercn.cn]

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