Millions race home for China's biggest holiday
- Published: 8 Feb 2013 at 13.44
- Online news: Asia
Pushing through scores of passengers in the aisle of a cramped train at Beijing West station, Chen Guolan could barely contain her excitement at joining the world's largest annual human migration.
Domestic worker Chen Guolan (R) makes her way to a train leaving the Beijing West Railway Station, on January 31, 2013, for the south-western Chinese city of Chongqing, a journey of 32 hours, and where she would take another train for a further 6 hours trip to reach her home in Yiban, Sichuan province.
"I have been so busy working away all year, and now I will soon be seeing my family," she said to a group of strangers sitting alongside her as she began an epic 2,000 kilometre journey back to the quiet backwater she calls home.
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