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Comment (The Chinese Ministry of Railways announced Friday that the country's lunar New Year's traveler peak season started on Jan. 18, six days ahead of its predicted arrival.
That means this year the country's Spring Festival would last from January 18 to March 2, six days longer than the previous schedule.
A police officer maintains order at the railway station in Shijiazhuang, capital of northern China's Hebei Province on January 17, 2008.The ministry said the total number of railway passengers stood at 3.96 million on January 16.
China's traditional Spring Festival starts on February 7 and during the upcoming over-one-month's annual peak season, millions of people are on the move for family gatherings and then returning to their work cities and towns.
"This year, before the Lunar New Year's eve, the passenger flow would possibly be bigger than the flow after the Lantern Festival -- the 15th day of the Lunar new year," sai...
