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In pictures: millions of Chinese workers return to work after New Year celebrations

As the Lunar new Year holiday winds down, so begins the return phase of chunyun - or spring exodus, the roughly 40 day period involving the greatest human migration on earth, when hundreds of millions of Chinese people make their back to their places of employment.

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Passengers check in at Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. Photo: Xinhua
A total of 51.99 million passengers travelled by train during the season of chunyun - coming home to visit relatives before heading back to their places of work.
People wait to board a train on the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year holidays at a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. Photo: Reuters
People wait to board a train on the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year holidays at a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. Photo: Reuters
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People line up to get into a subway at the Beijing railway station. Photo: AP
People line up to get into a subway at the Beijing railway station. Photo: AP
Headed towards the train station at Hebei Province. Photo: SCMP
Headed towards the train station at Hebei Province. Photo: SCMP
People massing at Shanghai station, headed back to work after visiting relatives. Photo: ImagineChina
People massing at Shanghai station, headed back to work after visiting relatives. Photo: ImagineChina
A mother soothes her young child as they wait for trains at Shijiazhuang station, the capital of north China's Hebei Province. Photo: Xinhua
A mother soothes her young child as they wait for trains at Shijiazhuang station, the capital of north China's Hebei Province. Photo: Xinhua
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Staff member Xie Zhiping stores baggage safely overhead on a train in Chongqing, in China’s southwest. Photo: Xinhua
Staff member Xie Zhiping stores baggage safely overhead on a train in Chongqing, in China’s southwest. Photo: Xinhua
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