Record numbers of travelers returned to their jobs in big cities during recent days as the seven-day Spring Festival holidays ended. Police get tough on train ticket scalpers More spend Chinese New Year overseas Migrants roll back to jobs in cities
Some 4,955 alleged train-ticket scalpers had been detained or arrested by police by Tuesday and officers had confiscated 31,000 tickets with a face value of more than 5 million yuan ($759,000), according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Nearly 20 percent of Chinese train travelers have turned to high-speed lines during the Spring Festival peak travel period, Wang Zhiguo, vice-minister of railways, told a news conference on Jan 30.
The national railway system is going through a harsh test, with increasing pressure from passengers who lined up all night for a train ticket and the icy weather. The Internet lends a hand
Passengers with bulging luggage kept flowing through the waiting hall of the Taiyuan Railway Station. It was 12 days before the Chinese lunar new year, and the annual Spring Festival travel rush had begun in Shanxi province.
China on Wednesday begins its annual Spring Festival travel rush, with an expected 2.56 billion passenger trips in the coming 40 days. Airlines and trains have been added to cope with the passenger surge, which is 11.6 percent up year on year, according to the Ministry of Transport
China's annual Spring Festival travel rush will start on Jan 19 and last for 40 days.
Migrant workers bundled up in quilts wait in line to buy train tickets at a station in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province on Jan 17, 2011.
Chinese police tightened security at Beijing International Airport Tuesday after a bomb attack killed 35 and injured some 150 at Moscow's airport.