China's 2016 Spring Festival railway travel will start on Jan 24 with stations across the country having a large number of student and migrant worker passengers right from the beginning.

Individual trips will reach 2.91 billion during the Spring Festival travel period from Jan 24 to March 3, according to relevant departments.

College students aboard a train to their hometowns at Shanxi's Taiyuan railway station on Jan 21. [Photo by Wu Junjie/chinanews.com]