40-day Spring Festival travel rush to start on Jan. 26
People walk to take their train at Taizhou train station in Taizhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 25, 2013. The 40-day Spring Festival travel will begin on Jan. 26. The Spring Festival, the most important occasion for a family reunion for the Chinese people, falls on the first day of the first month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, or Feb. 10 this year. The number of passengers would reach 3.407 billion person-time during the 2013 Spring Festival travel, an 8.6 percent increase year on year. (Xinhua/Gu Xiangzhong)