Spring Festival Travel Rush: Sunday sees some 9 million rail trips
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The Spring Festival travel rush is in full swing, as millions of people make their journey home for family reunions. Sunday alone is seeing some 9.2 million rail trips. The railway authority has scheduled an additional 700 trains. Guangzhou has some 1.5 million rail trips, the largest passenger flow. In the skies, 260-thousand trips by planes. Snow and ice have closed highways in the four provinces of Jilin, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan. Authorities are sending out clean up crews to get them open.