Exodus ahead of Chinese New Year

Exodus ahead of Chinese New Year

BEIJING, China - Workers and students walk through a concourse at Beijing West station on Jan. 18, 2011. An estimated 2.85 billion people will have likely used trains, buses and airplanes during the monthlong period of the ''great migration'' until late February to spend the Chinese New Year holidays in early February in their hometowns in rural areas and return to big cities.

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