Go home in Spring Rush
As the annual Spring Festival holiday rush approaches, millions of homebound passengers are flocking to the rails for travel. China Daily website will present readers some things often spotted among train travelers:
Instant noodles
It is a Japanese invention, but the biggest market for instant noodles is China. Chinese people consumed 98.2 billion packages of instant noodles in 2012, about half of the world's consumption, according to Koki Ando, chairman of the World Instant Noodles Association. A large part of Chinese consumption is made by train travelers.
Poker cards
How do you kill the boring long travel time in the limited space of a train? Playing card games is the most-common choice for passengers.
| A man plays card games with his son in a train heading from eastern Yantai city to Guangzhou city on Jan 10, 2012. [Photo by Zhou Jian/CFP] |
| A passenger plays a card game in a train heading from Shanghai to the southwestern city of Chengdu on Jan 15, 2012. [Photo by Liu Yuyang/CFP] |
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