homework Millions of Chinese have start travelling home ahead of lunar new year holidays this month. Trains are expected to be packed with railway stations breesing themselves for as many as 210 million passengers during the week-long holiday. Crowed of people have been queuing in counters of Beijing’s West Rail Station in the hope of securing the price ticket homes. It’s not easy to buy tickets, I want to buy a ticket on the seventh, but the tickets had already been sold out, there are only tickets for slow trains, no tickets available for the express trains, that means I had to sit 12 more hours because I’m taking the slow train. For many of China’s migrant workers, the Spring Festival holidays are the only opportunity they have to see their families back home. The Spring Festival is coming soon, I’m travelling back home to see my parents. They are expecting me home, this is probably the only time I can be with them each year, any my family is great. Nowadays, travel is very convenient. But crowded departures are only at beginning. At the end of the holidays, it’s expected to be just busy. Kirsty Berser, Reuters. |