Many migrant workers get off train in Dongguan East Railway Station on February 8, 2011. [Photo: Dongguan Daily]
The City of Dongguan sees the travel peak after the Chinese New Year's Day on Tuesday (Feb. 8), the sixth day of the week-long holiday. Waves of migrant labors are beginning their journey back to the city to work.
Dongguan East Railway Station received about 27,000 passengers returned while Dongguan Central Bus Station and Nancheng Bus Station received over 65,000 passengers returned.
The Airport Dongguan Check-in witnesses more than 3,000 passengers for yesterday alone, 60% of whom were from Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu and Nanjing. The Airport Dongguan Check-in estimates that the travel peak will last until the tenth day of the Chinese New Year (February 12).
According to the city's Spring Festival Travel Season Office, over 350,000 people go back to Dongguan after the holidays from the first day to the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
