Riders' long journey home made easier

Editor's note: As Chinese embrace Spring Festival, China Daily will present a series of stories on how people greet the new year and pursue a better life.

On a sunny but cold morning, Ma De began his journey home, by motorcycle, for a Spring Festival family reunion.

It was expected to take Ma, who left on Thursday, nearly 10 hours to travel from Foshan, Guangdong province, where he has been working in a hardware factory for eight years, to his hometown in Nanping county in the neighboring Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.