One of the reasons for many travelers to use a travel agency in China is because only travel agencies were able to book train tickets in advance. But this is not true during the period of the Chinese Spring festival. Our government has stopped the booking system for travel agency to book train tickets in advance for their customers.
Millions of Chinese migrant workers are now jamming in train stations to buy tickets home for the Lunar New Year holiday. Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the biggest of two "Golden Week" holidays, giving migrant workers their only chance of the year of returning to their home provinces with gifts for the family, the biggest movement of humanity in the world. The holiday begins on January 26. The second Golden Week of the year celebrates National Day on Oct 1. Beijing station, one of three in the city, has added 35 daily departures and arrivals each to its normal 105 to accommodate the surge, a station worker said. Chinese airlines also expect to carry 12 percent more passengers this holiday compared with 2008, or some 24.2 million people, an aviation official said in a webcast on government website www.gov.cn.
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