Special Report: 2009 Spring Festival travel
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People enter the Beijing West Railway
Station in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 17, 2009. Tens of millions of
Chinese are traveling to their home towns or vacation spots for the Lunar
New Year, or the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan. 26 this
year.(Xinhua/Gong Lei)
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People enter the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 17, 2009. Tens of millions of Chinese are traveling to their home towns or vacation spots for the Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, which falls on Jan. 26 this year. (Xinhua/Gong Lei Photo)
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Chinese travelers walk the line in
long odyssey home
BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- As the clock tower on top of the Beijing Railway
Station building struck 10, barely an hour after the ticket office opened, the
hopes of the hundreds of winter-coated queuers are fading.
It's a scene of deja vu for the millions of Chinese who
travel to their home towns or vacation spots during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Global crisis shifts holiday travel
patterns of China migrants
GUANGZHOU, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Outside a temporary waiting room at the Guangzhou
Railway Station, a rail hub in south China, a man sat with his mother and
daughter on a duffel bag.
Ahead of the three-generation family was a 1,250-mile
journey from the coastal area to their rural inland hometown of Hechuan,
Chongqing.
