Seasonal migration of Chinese left-behind children

（People's Daily Online） 09:07, July 08, 2013

Child of migrant workers waits for the train at the Suzhou Railway Station in east China's Jiangsu province, July 1, 2013. (vip.people.com.cn/Wang Jiankang)

Edited and translated by Huang Jin, People's Daily Online

The travel peak of China's summer holidays began on July 1, 2013. It will last 62 days and finish on Aug. 31, 2013. During the period, more than 390 million passengers are expected to travel by train, an increase of 29 million from last year. The number of daily traffic reaches 6.3 million. Many children of immigrant workers rushed to their parents for family reunion. Some migrant workers chose to go back home to visit their children and parents.

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