Passengers queue to board a train at Beijing Railway Station February
4, 2007. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million
people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people
flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said. That
record number -- equivalent to more than the entire population of Russia
-- could be attributed to the government's decision not to raise ticket
prices as it normally would over the holiday, said railway ministry
spokesman Wang Yongping. [Reuters] |