Kissing goodbye for the holiday

Lovebirds and young couple hug and kiss goodbye at Shanghai Railway Station at the start of the 40-day travel peak for the Spring Festival yesterday. The railway station has so far sold about 9.74 million tickets, with those bought online reaching 7.62 million, accounting for 78.5 percent. Authorities have predicted that more than 3.6 billion trips will be made nationwide. — Gao Jianping