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Tue 02 Feb 2010Chinese throng trains and buses as year of tiger sparks annual migration
MILLIONS of Chinese boarded buses, trains and planes at the weekend for the world’s largest annual human migration, as they went home to their families to celebrate the start of the year of the tiger on February 14th.
About 2.5 billion trips are expected over 40 days. The rail ministry said four million people travelled by train across China on Saturday alone.
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