Overseas students at work in the Fulingbei railway station, southwest China's Chongqing, to provide services for travelers during the Spring Festival travel rush. (Photo/People's Daily Online) The Spring Festival travel rush, known as "Chunyun" in Chinese, refers to the annual travel peak that occurs before and after the Chinese Spring Festival.
Passengers wait to board the train at Xi'an North Railway Station in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 14, 2020.
During this year's Spring Festival travel rush, about 440 million trips are expected to made by rail, up 8 percent year-on-year. Despite the increase in traffic, many passengers will find the journey home more comfortable, thanks to new changes in 2020.
BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Millions of Chinese are travelling smarter, faster, more efficiently and more comfortably than ever before after one of the world's largest human migrations got underway last Friday.