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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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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.
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