A passenger leaves the Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, China, Feb. 15, 2014. As the traditional Spring Festival season ended, a new wave of post-holiday travel rush came to China's railway system. The nation's railways are expected to carry eight million passengers on Saturday, the first day after the Lantern Festival which ended the festival season. The new wave of passengers mainly included students going back to school for the new semester and migrant workers returning to cities to start work. (Xinhua/Li Wen)
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Tourists throng a street in ancient Qibao Town in Shanghai as rain falls on the last day of the weeklong Spring Festival holiday yesterday. The city tourism administration said Shanghai received more than 3.6 million tourists during the holiday, up 8.2 percent year on year, citing folk culture activities as the biggest draw. The Bund, Yuyuan Garden, the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall and Xujiahui received about 17 million visitors during the holiday, becoming the city’s most popular attractions. (Shanghai Daily/Dong Jun)
Passengers walk towards the Yinchuan Railway Station in snow in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Feb. 6, 2014. With the Spring Festival coming to an end, people started to leave their hometowns for the workplaces. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)
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A dragon dancer performs to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year at the trading floor of the Philippine Stocks Exchange in Makati City, the Philippines, Feb. 3, 2014. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)
Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama (front L) takes part in traditional Chinese lion dance performance at Yat Sen School in Suva, Fiji, Feb. 2, 2013. Voreqe Bainimarama delivered his Chinese New Year speech at Yat Sen School on Sunday, wishing Chinese people all over the world a happy and prosperous New Year. Bainimarama and his wife Maria and over 10 other family members attended the Spring Festival gala organized by the local Chinese community, where more than 800 people celebrated the year of the Horse together. (Xinhua/Michael Yang)
Chinese singer Song Zuying receives an interview after the third Chinese New Year concert by New York philharmonic orchestra marking the 35th anniversary of Sino-U.S. diplomatic relationships, at Lincoln Center in New York, the United States, Feb. 1, 2014. (Xinhua/Wu Rong)
Girls perform during a Lunar New Year of the Horse Parade and celebration in Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada, Feb.2, 2014. The grand parade is one of the largest in North America, drawing more than 80,000 people to the streets of Chinatown. (Xinhua/Sergei Bachlakov)
Actors from central China's Hunan Province perform a dance during an event celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 2, 2014. (Xinhua/Attila Volgyi)
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Like many other children in rural China, 5-year-old Ruan Cheng longs for the moment his parents come home from their jobs in a faraway city for the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)
Xiao Shengnan, hotel manager, wishes China and her family health and peace in Mozambique, Maputo on Jan 29, 2014. (Xinhua/ Li Xiaopeng)
Chief attendant Li Na and her crew members get up at 5:20a.m in the dorm. (People's Daily Online/Guan Tengfei)
Two college students Zhou (left) and Xu (right) waiting to buy tickets at Beijing West Railway Station in Beijing, Jan. 21, 2014. Only Zhou has successfully got a ticket. (Xinhua/Zhang Longyun)
Combo photo taken on Jan. 5, 2014 shows walnut-carving works featuring the theme of horse to greet the upcoming Chinese lunar new year, the Year of Horse, in Zibo City of east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhao Dongshan)
Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2014 shows passengers' belongings in their luggages through X-Ray of the security inspection at a bus terminal in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Yu Fangping)
Deng Liuliu (L) and Lu Yi have fallen in love for 1,016 days. It is the first time that Deng has invited Lu Yi to her home to visit her parents together. Lu bought cigarettes and liquor for his future parents-in-law. Weight: 60.5 kilograms. (Photo/ Zhou Jian)
Chief attendant Su Hong helps Yan Huan and Yan Yi trim their uniforms on the train T58. (Chinanews.com/Hu Zhiqiang)
A staff member shows a piece of golden lucky money at a gold store in Taiyuan of north China's Shanxi province on Jan. 26, 2014. Lucky money is traditionally given in red packages to young people during Chinese Lunar New Year. These red envelopes are called Hung Bao, and they are usually decorated with symbols of wealth and luck. (Photo: ens.cn/Zhang Yun)
Photo taken on late night Jan. 26, 2014 shows Zhang Ting (L) and Shi Xiaoli, members of a service group mainly in charge of serving infirm passengers at Beijing Railway Station. As the 2014 Chinese lunar new year approaches, a travel peak has been witnessed during the last weekend before the upcoming festival. Railway personnel have been working around the clock during the peak. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
Liu Yunshan (R), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, talks with Feng Qiyong, famous scholar of Chinese masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions", in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 26, 2014. On behalf of President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Liu visited several cultural icons in Beijing and extended lunar new year greetings to all cultural workers in the country.(Xinhua/Wang Ye)
Combination photo shows the villagers watching a cockfighting show in Cao County, Heze City, east China's Shandong province, Jan. 27, 2014. Cockfighting is very popular all around Heze City during the Spring Festival period. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
"Milk Tea" girl Zhang Zetian (R), an internet celebrity who is said on the top of the list of China's prettiest univerity students, hosts a Spring Festival gala of 20 Universities and Colleges in Eastern US, in Washington D.C., the United States, Jan. 26, 2014. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu)
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The students pose for photo on a bridge, marking the first day of the journey. (Photo provided to People’s Daily Online)
A group of migrant workers depart from Nantang Avenue in Jinjiang City, southeastern China's Fujian Province, to embark on their 500-kilometer-long journey home by motorcycle, 7:08 a.m., Jan. 23, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)
People sign the banner calling for a fireworks-free Spring Festival in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 25, 2014. The Chinese Spring Festival, or lunar New Year, is traditionally celebrated with fireworks, which cause serious air pollution. A number of Jinan citizens called Saturday on others to stop exploding fireworks during the Spring Festival starting on Jan. 31 this year to protect the environment. (Xinhua/Lyu Chuanquan)
U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu unveils the "Celebrating Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse" forever stamp during the opening ceremony of the two-day Monterey Park Chinese New Year Festival in Los Angeles Jan. 25, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhao Hanrong)
