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Passengers use their smartphones as they sit in a waiting room at the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016. China's peak travel season is kicking into high gear as hundreds of millions of people return home for Spring Festival celebrations or head for vacation destinations. According to the Ministry of transport, Chinese travelers are expected to make 2.9 billion trips during the 40-day period between Jan. 21 and March 3, with the majority of those trips falling in the weeks around the Feb. 8 Lunar New Year. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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