Student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to bo
Monkey decorations are on display for sale at a store in Hong Kong.- A vendor, left, shows the monkey decorations to a customer at a annual market in Hong Kong. Chinese will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Feb. 8 this year which marks the Year of Monkey on the Chinese zodiac.
- A customer, center, purchases a tangerine plant, which represents wealth at a annual market in Hong Kong.
- By comparison, Chinese made 3.6 billion trips during the same holiday period in 2014.
- In coastal Zhejiang province near Shanghai, officials expect a 4.4 per cent drop in passenger traffic as jobs dry up and migrant labourers pack up early to head to their family homes in China's hinterlands well before the New Year.
- At the Beijing railway station, student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to book two months in advance.
- 'It's great to have the whole family sit down and enjoy a family dinner together. I have been working far from home with my kid for a whole year,' he said.
- 'I have my parents back in my hometown and I must go back and have the family reunion,' said Ma Xijie, a migrant worker from Sichuan province who was travelling back home by train with his son and wife.
- Chinese travellers are expected to make 2.9 billion trips during the 40-day period between January 21 and March 3, with the majority of those trips falling in the weeks around the February 8 Lunar New Year, the Ministry of Transport said.
- Chinese are packing train and bus stations as the peak travel season kicks into high gear this weekend with hundreds of millions of people going home for Spring Festival celebrations - or head for vacation destinations.
Monkey decorations are on display for sale at a store in Hong Kong.
Student Ren Chongyuan from Shandong province said it was a bit easier to buy tickets this year, but he still had to bo
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