Every year in the past several decades China has witnessed the world’s largest annual human migration as hundreds of millions of people rush home for family reunions and to celebrate the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year. A woman is crawling out the window of a train during the Spring Festival travel rush in 2000. (Photos: VCG)

Rail transport experiences the biggest challenge during the period, and myriad social problems have emerged. The Chinese government makes great efforts every year, including planning in advance, fixing timelines and duration, arranging personnel, allocating funds, cracking down on gangs manipulating ticket prices and selling bogus tickets.

Passengers are waiting outside the Guangzhou Railway Station during the 1993 Spring Festival.

Passengers are placing their luggage in the compartment of the express coach in Ji’an, Jiangxi province during the Spring Festival travel rush in 2006.

Migrant workers carry their luggage past the Tiananmen Square in Feb. 27, 2009.

The Beijing Railway Station has braced for the travel peak, which is expected to transport 4.14 million passengers during the 2019 Spring Festival Travel Rush.

The Beijing Railway Station has braced for the travel peak, which is expected to transport 4.14 million passengers during the 2019 Spring Festival Travel Rush.