Sweet and bitter journey home
(Newsphoto)
Updated: 2005-12-23 17:16

With big baggages on shoulder, a migrant worker arrives at a railway station in Shanghai to head home, December 23, 2005.  Migrant workers in Shanghai began to return home on special trains arranged for them. China's passenger flow will hit 2 billion trips during the 2006 Spring Festival holiday starting from the middle of next month, authorities predicted. Among them, 1.8 billion trips are expected to use the roads, 144 million the railways, and 15 million by air. [Newsphoto]