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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.









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

Passengers check in at Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. Photo: Xinhua

(170203) -- BEIJING, Feb. 3, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Xie Zhiping lay baggage on a train in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 27, 2017. China's railways carried a record number of passengers during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday. A total of 51.99 million passengers traveled by train during the Spring Festival break, an increase of 8.8 percent from a year earlier, according to China Railway. (Xinhua/Liu Chan) (lfj)

People wait to board a train on the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year holidays at a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

People crowds at Shanghai station. ImagineChina

(170202) -- HARBIN, Feb. 2, 2017 (Xinhua) -- A passenger waits for departure on a train at the Harbin Railway Station in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 2, 2017. Travel peak appeared again as people return to work on the last day of week-long Lunar New Year Holiday. (Xinhua/Wang Kai) (zwx)

People line up to get into a subway at the Beijing railway station in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Millions of Chinese are returning to work in the capital city after spending a week-long Lunar New Year holiday with families in their hometown. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

(170203) -- BEIJING, Feb. 3, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Passengers at a railway station in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 28, 2017. China's railways carried a record number of passengers during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday. A total of 51.99 million passengers traveled by train during the Spring Festival break, an increase of 8.8 percent from a year earlier, according to China Railway. (Xinhua/Lu Boan) (lfj)

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(170203) -- BEIJING, Feb. 3, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Passengers wait for trains at a railway station in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 2, 2017. China's railways carried a record number of passengers during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday. A total of 51.99 million passengers traveled by train during the Spring Festival break, an increase of 8.8 percent from a year earlier, according to China Railway. (Xinhua/Mu Yu) (lfj)

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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.
