Students to book rooms for migrants during Qixi Festival

A dozen college students in Henan province plan to book 200 hotel rooms in which migrant workers' families can reunite during the Qixi Festival, which falls on Thursday.

Wang Xuhui, a sophomore at Zhengzhou Jiaotong University who initiated the plan, said on Sunday that 28 migrant worker couples have applied for the free hotel service since the plan was publicized on the Internet three days ago.

Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month on the Chinese lunar calendar, is referred as China's Valentines Day. It is based on a legendary love story in which a separated couple have their annual reunion through a temporary bridge over the Milky Way on this day.