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Spring Festival travel peak

(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-02-15 18:03

Passengers sit in a train carriage at a railway station in Shanghai before a 40 hour journey to Chengdu, capital of southwestern Sichuan province February 8, 2007. China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival. [Reuters]