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The Spring Festival holiday is a frenetic travel period in China when hundreds of millions of Chinese return to their hometowns for family gatherings, to visit relatives and friends or just for a break from city life.

Xinhua丨Updated: February 3, 2019

This combo photo shows the first Beijing-Guangzhou direct train leaving the Beijing Railway Station on Oct. 14, 1957 (top, photo taken by Meng Qingbiao); and a Fuxing bullet train passing by the Yongdingmen gate tower as it travels on the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, Jan. 25, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Xing Guangli). [Photo/Xinhua]

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