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Migrant workers leave home
2006-02-02 09:47:35 SINA English


(Photo: REUTERS/Stringer)

A Chinese boy eats rice with his immigrant worker parents as they ride the train from Wuhan, China's Hubei Province, to Shanghai during the Chinese Lunar New Year festival, February 2, 2006.

An estimated 144 million Chinese in China -- equivalent to the population of Bangladesh -- use trains to get home and back for the ongoing Chinese New Year Festival.

(Source: Reuters)
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