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The Spring Festival travel rush,known as Chunyun (春运) in Chinese,is famously known as the largest annual migration on earth.This year,an expected three billion journeys will be made over the Spring Festival travel rush window.

The 40-day festival witnesses the largest annual migration on Earth,as millions of people travel either home to be with their family and friends to celebrate the Chinese New Year or play tourist during the one-week-long Spring Festival holidays.

Spring Festival,also known as the Chinese Lunar New Year,is China's most important holiday for family reunions.

The Spring Festival travel rush appeared in the 1980s after rural laborers flocked into cities to find jobs amid China's urbanization development. They could afford time and money to go back home once a year for the Spring Festival family reunion.

Travelling around during the festival is never easy. Although the Nation transport networks are more capable of handling, the volume and challenge still remains.

Over 300 million train tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush have been sold after the presale kicked off on Dec 12, 2019, according to the latest statistics from China's railway operator.

About 14.43 million tickets were sold via the official 12306 online booking services on Thursday, accounting for 88.4 percent of the total.

Popular trains of the day are return trips to major cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with tickets almost sold out.

Thanks to the nationwide promotion of electronic tickets, travelers can use their ID cards to enter and exit train stations instead of using paper tickets for boarding, according to the CSRC.

The upcoming Spring Festival holiday is a traditional time for family reunions, while the travel rush will last for 40 days from Jan 10 to Feb 18.

Here are some photos highlighting touching moments from the journey during what is the country's biggest annual festiva.

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