A Chinese traveller carries his baby on his shoulder at a railway station in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province January 17, 2004. In what may be the world's largest annual movement of people, transport officials are expecting hundreds of millions of people to take a total of 1.89 billion trips as they visit relatives or go sightseeing in the coming days to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Monkey which begins on January 22. [Reuters]

A Chinese traveler carries his luggage at a railway station in Guangzhou January 17, 2004. [Reuters]

Chinese travelers wait for a train at a railway station in Guangzhou January 17, 2004. [Reuters]

A Chinese traveller wears a mask to ward off SARS at a railway station in Guangzhou. [Reuters]

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