Gallery: Your Travel Nightmare Has Nothing on a Snowbound Chinese New Year

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    Year of the Monkey Celebrations in China

    China’s preparing for the Lunar New Year, the height of an epic travel season in which many Chinese travel to visit family, racking up about 2.9 billion trips in a 40-day period.
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    CHINA-GUANGZHOU-RAILWAY-PASSENGER-DELAY (CN)

    Unfortunately for those traveling over the past few days, unexpected heavy snow hit parts of central and eastern China, causing major delays.
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    China New Year Travel

    Stranded passengers were made to wait outside Guangzhou Railway Station after trains were delayed.
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    Spring Festival Travel Season at Guangzhou Train Station

    Some passengers had to wait up to ten hours to board their trains.
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    Passengers line up to enter a railway station after trains were delayed due to bad weather in southern China in Guangzhou

    Passengers line up to enter a railway station after trains were delayed due to bad weather in southern China in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 1, 2016.
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    Big freeze disrupts China's travel rush, strands nearly 100,000 in Guangzhou

    About 12.7 million passengers are expected to leave Guangzhou by train over the entire travel rush period, a year-on-year increase of 4.6 percent, Vice Mayor Zhou Yawei said in a meeting in December.
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    China New Year Travel

    Policemen controlled the stranded passengers entering Guangzhou Railway Station after trains were delayed as they prepare going back to their hometown ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. China's travel rush ahead of Lunar New Year has been disrupted by rare snowfall in central parts of the country. (Color China Photo via AP) CHINA OUT
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    The Guangzhou Railway Station takes a plan of "debarkation in advance" to leave enough waiting space for passengers in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 2, 2016. Rain and snow hitting south China delayed many trains starting from Guangzhou. The local authority launched a level-three emergency plan on Monday afternoon in response to the Spring Festival transport with a level-two security plan launched by Guangzhou police.
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