Way back home: Spring Festival travel rush begins in China
By Bao Han
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January 21, 2019, marks the first day of China's Spring Festival travel rush. The photo shows prepared high-speed trains in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, on January 19. (Photos: VCG)
An aerial photo shows trains preparing for the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, on January 21, 2019.
Shanghai Railway Station opens a temporary waiting area with colorful seats to provide passengers with a warm resting place on January 20, 2019.
A staff member of the Beijing Railway Bureau carefully checks the first train of the Spring Festival travel rush, K4051 from Beijing to Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu Province, in the evening of January 20, 2019.
Large crowds of passengers are waiting in line to check in at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station on January 21, 2019.
Passengers board the train to go home on Dianjiang, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, in the early morning of January 21, 2019.
Passengers working in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, carry their luggage and board the train to return home on January 20, 2019.
Passengers holds pig dolls, which represent the year of pig in the Chinese zodiac, and smile with happiness to sit on the first bus returning home in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, in the early morning of January 21,
A passenger waves happily to the camera while carrying heavy luggage after getting off the train in his hometown at Haozhou Railway Station, East China's Anhui Province, on January 21, 2019.