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Crowds of Chinese passengers who head home for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival, wait at the square in front of the Guangzhou Railway Station after trains were delayed due to snow and ice in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 2 February 2016. Tens of thousands of people were stranded at a station in Guangzhou Tuesday (2 February 2016) morning, after snow and ice elsewhere disrupted the world's largest annual human migration ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on February 8. Many trains to the capital of south China's Guangdong Province had been delayed after north and central China were hit by the big freeze, leaving no transport available for those waiting to begin their journeys home for the holiday. Police said the numbers stuck at two of the city's main stations, Guangzhou and Guangzhou East, had risen to nearly 100, 000 by Monday morning, prompting the mobilization of almost 4, 000 police and security guards to maintain order. It was estimated that more than 175, 000 passengers would be leaving from the station Tuesday, the 10th day of the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush. 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.
