Travellers walk outside Beijing Railway Station February 4, 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, a senior official said. That record number
-- equivalent to more than the entire population of Russia -- could be
attributed to the government's decision not to raise ticket prices as it
normally would over the holiday, said railway ministry spokesman Wang
Yongping. [Reuters] |
