Beijing
CHINESE tradition requires people to gather at their family home before the Lunar New Year begins - on Feb 19 this year - with authorities expecting more than 2.8 billion trips to be taken over the festive period.
Rail is one of the favoured ways to travel and while historically there have been endless queues at the ticket windows, China's official train booking website 12306.cn is helping to relieve congestion in stations and kiosks.
But with such huge demand. users say it can be still be an...