People wait to board a train on the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year holidays at a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. Photo: Reuters
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In pictures: millions of Chinese workers return to work after New Year celebrations
As the Lunar new Year holiday winds down, so begins the return phase of chunyun - or spring exodus, the roughly 40 day period involving the greatest human migration on earth, when hundreds of millions of Chinese people make their back to their places of employment.
Passengers check in at Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. Photo: Xinhua
A total of 51.99 million passengers travelled by train during the season of chunyun - coming home to visit relatives before heading back to their places of work.
People line up to get into a subway at the Beijing railway station. Photo: AP
Headed towards the train station at Hebei Province. Photo: SCMP
People massing at Shanghai station, headed back to work after visiting relatives. Photo: ImagineChina
A mother soothes her young child as they wait for trains at Shijiazhuang station, the capital of north China's Hebei Province. Photo: Xinhua
Staff member Xie Zhiping stores baggage safely overhead on a train in Chongqing, in China’s southwest. Photo: Xinhua
Before getting a seat one must first navigate the platforms: passengers at a railway station in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regio. Photo: Xinhua
Finally, a seat: a passenger waits for departure on a train at the Harbin Railway Station. Photo: Xinhua