Nurses take care of newborn babies at the No 1 People's Hospital in Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province, Jan 23, 2012. Monday marks the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Dragon. [Photo/Xinhua]
A total of 235 million trips will be made via the country's railways during the festival travel rush this year, up 6.1 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Railways (MOR).
More than 50,000 migrant workers are estimated to leave the manufacturing hub of the Pearl River Delta on motorbikes in the coming days and return to provinces in the south to be with their families for Spring Festival.
Measuring at about 60 centimeters long, an arowana is priced at 88,000 yuan ($13,924) at a market in Nanming district of Guiyang city, Southwest China’s Guizhou province on Jan 10, 2012. This kind of fish is popular with customers despite the high prices, since the fish’s Chinese name is translated literally as ‘dragon fish’, which associates the fish with fortune and auspicious omens.
As the Chinese Lunar New Year draws closer, the world's largest annual human migration started on Jan 8, with at least 3.2 billion journeys expected over a 40-day period.
