Sweet and bitter journey home
(Newsphoto)
Updated: 2005-12-23 17:16

A migrant worker rests on his luggage at a public square of a railway station in Shanghai, December 23, 2005. Migrant workers in Shanghai began on Friday to return home on special trains arranged for them. China's passenger flow will hit 2 billion trips during the 2006 Spring Festival holiday starting from the middle of next month, authorities predicted. Among them, 1.8 billion trips are expected to use the roads, 144 million the railways, and 15 million by air. [Newsphoto]