A florist tends to flowers at a flower cultivation base in Beiwang township of Langfang city, North China's Hebei province, on Jan 8, 2020. Flowers cultivated in Langfang have played an important role in meeting market demand in Beijing and Tianjin. [Photo/Xinhua]
People enjoy snow-tubing in Beijing's Taoranting Park on Jan 4, 2020. With the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics approaching, enthusiasm for ice and snow activities seems to be reaching new levels. [Lu Xin/China Daily]
Antarctic penguins at the Harbin Polarland waddle past rows of visitors in the capital city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Jan 7, 2020. [Photo by Guo Shuling/chinadaily.com.cn]
A view of a ice waterfall on cliffs in Xiaojin town under Qingyang city, Northwest China's Gansu province. Winter's dropping temperatures have created the breathtaking natural wonder. (Photos: China News Service/Yang Junping/ Zhang Zhancong)
A policeman and a police dog patrol the square in front of Beijing Railway Station on Jan 10. [Photo by Wang Jing/chinadaily.com.cn]
BEIJING -- China, the world's most populated country, on Friday ushered in its largest annual migration, 15 days ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year.
Passengers get on a bus at Beigang bus station in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on Jan 10. [Photo by Liu Debin/for chinadaily.com.cn]
There will be three billion trips during the travel rush from Jan 10 to Feb 18 for family reunions and travel, slightly up from that of last year, according to a forecast from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 10, 2020 shows high speed trains at a maintenance station in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. The 2020 Spring Festival travel rush started on Jan. 10 and will last till Feb. 18. (Photo by Wang Xi/Xinhua)
Qin Yunlin, carrying his 76-year-old mother on his back, walk to board K4526 train at Shenzhen East Railway Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. The 2020 Spring Festival travel rush started on Jan. 10 and will last till Feb. 18. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
A worker cleans a restroom of a bullet train at a maintaining base in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, Jan. 8, 2020. As night falls, workers of a railway service company in Xining start their work. Usually, they start from 8 pm and end before dawn. It takes about 3 hours for a 3-worker team to clean a carriage. No matter how onerous the work is, every corner of the trains will be cleaned up. As the 2020 Spring Festival is approaching, workers here are getting prepared to better serve the travel rush. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
A worker cleans the exterior of a bullet train at a maintaining base in Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, Jan. 8, 2020.(Xinhua/Zhang Long)
A visitor consults a Chinese exhibitor about the features of VR products at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the United States, Jan. 9, 2020. The four-day, annual tech show, opened on Tuesday, drew more than 4,500 exhibitors from over 160 countries and regions, including around 1,000 Chinese companies, according to the Consumer Technology Association. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling)
Wang Changfu (R), waves goodbye to his three-year-old daughter on train K4051 at Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 10, 2020. The upcoming holiday for the Spring Festival, a traditional festival for family reunions, will run from Jan. 24 to 30, while the travel rush, also known as chunyun, will last 40 days from Jan. 10 to Feb. 18. (Xinhua/Ju huanzong)
SHENZHEN, Jan. 10, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Passengers on train K4526 wait for leaving at Shenzhen East Railway Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
SHENZHEN, Jan. 10, 2020 (Xinhua) -- A woman entertains a child while waiting for getting on train K4526 at Shenzhen East Railway Station in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)
Seven-year-old Zhang Mengran and her farther wait for getting on train K4051 at Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, late at night on Jan. 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Ju huanzong)