BEIJING, Feb. 16-- A new transport peak spiked in the past three days as the week-long lunar New Year holidays wrapped up Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands, studying and working away from their hometowns, have begun to hit road, rail and air links after spending Spring Festival with their families.

Around 150,000 passengers a day were returning to Guangdong Province through Guangzhou Railway Station to resume work or studies in the Year of the Rooster.

An additional 29 trains were added to reduce the load on Guangzhou's rail links.

"The number of passengers arriving in Guangzhou on Monday was 20 percent higher than the same period last year," a railway employee surnamed Yang was quoted as saying by the Guangzhou Daily.

The Guangdong provincial bus terminal in Guangzhou also saw a record 70,000 passengers Monday. The destinations of passengers are mainly to Dongguan, Jiangmen, Shenzhen and Foshan cities.

Many workers came to the province looking for work after a decade-old ban forbidding migrants from seeking jobs within a month of the Spring Festival was lifted.

Bus fares were raised by 5 percent during the holidays.

A survey of 500 enterprises in the Pearl River Delta cities showed March and April were off-peak seasons for labor. The labor demand was expected to peak in the summer. The post-festival demand for laborers in Guangzhou would not exceed 90,000. Workers needed to find out about the job situation by contacting their local labor departments before going to Guangzhou, Wu Qikai, chief of the labor authority said.

The city now has 1.3 million registered migrant workers.

(Source:Shenzhen Daily)