Passengers have tickets checked 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)