China
has started the 40-day Spring Festival peak travel season, with a total of 3.16
billion journeys expected to be made. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival,
begins on 23 January and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon
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| Passengers at Hankou railway station in Wuhan |
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| Passengers queue to buy tickets at a booth outside a railway station in Beijing |
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| A man hangs Lunar New Year decorations at Yuyuan Garden, in central Shanghai |
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| A passenger on a train at Shanghai's railway station |
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| A security guard patrols as passengers queue up to buy bus tickets at Changsha South station, Hunan province |
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| Decorative lanterns are hung on a tree ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Ditan Park in Beijing |
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| A woman wipes her tears with her partner's scarf as they part at Beijing west railway station |
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| Passengers board a train at Shanghai's railway station |
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| Paramilitary policemen stand in formation as they watch passengers enter the Beijing west railway station |
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| People queue to take trains home at Hankou railway station in Wuhan |
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| Migrant workers return to their romote Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces for the Spring Festival |