This combo photo shows attendants getting ready to work aboard the train K1/6 during the Spring Festival travel rush in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province in January of 1998 (top, photo taken by Gao Meiji); and bullet train stewards taking part in an etiquette training in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 17, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Su Yang). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows a train attendant mopping in a train carriage that travels from Urumqi to Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 10, 2005 (left, photo taken by Sadat); and a worker cleaning a bullet train carriage at a depot in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, early on Feb. 10, 2011 (right, photo taken by Cheng Min). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows a couple making a farewell phone call across a train window at the Zhengzhou Railway Station in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Jan. 23, 2009 (top, photo taken by Zhu Xiang); and a passenger having a video chat with a friend using 4G network aboard a bullet train which travels from Hefei, east China's Anhui Province to Jiangshan, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 4, 2015 (bottom, photo taken by Du Yu). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows passengers without seats looking out of a train traveling from Shanghai to Fuyang, as the train pulls into the Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 7, 2004 (top, file photo); and twin brothers Liu Hong (L) and Liu Xiang standing next to the door of the train G118 while travelling from Rizhao, east China's Shandong Province to Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 24, 2016 (bottom, photo taken by Li Xiang). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows people peeking through train windows as they see off friends and relatives at the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 3, 2007 (top, photo taken by Li Wen); and a man waving goodbye to his family members who are aboard a departing train at the Shijiazhuang Railway Station in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 21, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Liang Zidong). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows old-style steam locomotives kept in extended service on the Jining-Tongliao railway in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 7, 2005 (top, photo taken by Zhang Ling); and bullet trains waiting for maintenance at a train depot in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Jan. 20, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Xiong Qi). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows passengers boarding an old-style green train on a platform at the Genhe Railway Station in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Jan. 31, 2016 (top, photo taken by Lian Zhen); and a bullet train which is about to depart from Chongqing West Station in southwest China's Chongqing, Feb. 12, 2018 (bottom, photo taken by Liu Chan). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows station staff members offering hot water for train passengers at the Shijiazhuang Railway Station during the Spring Festival travel season in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province in 1984 (top, photo taken by Zhao Liansheng); and train attendant Liao Hui of the Nanchang Railway Bureau offering a cup of water for a young passenger on Feb. 6, 2016 (bottom, photo taken by Jiang Kehong). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows passengers arranging their luggage in carriage 11 of the train L28 which travels from Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian Province to southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 23, 2003 (left, photo taken by Jiang Kehong); and train conductor Jiang Fei checking the luggage rack aboard a bullet train on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway, Jan. 30, 2010 (right, photo taken by Li Mingfang). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows the first Beijing-Guangzhou direct train leaving the Beijing Railway Station on Oct. 14, 1957 (top, photo taken by Meng Qingbiao); and a Fuxing bullet train passing by the Yongdingmen gate tower as it travels on the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, Jan. 25, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Xing Guangli). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows passengers queuing up to board the trains at the Beijing Railway Station during the Spring Festival travel season in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 12, 1993 (top, photo taken by Tang Zhaoming); and passengers prepare to board the trains after security check at the Lanzhou Railway Station in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Jan. 20, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Chen Bin). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows cleaners washing a train at the end of the Spring Festival travel season at the Guiyang Railway Station in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, March 5, 2005 (top, photo taken by Wu Dongjun); and a cleaner washing a bullet train at a depot in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, early on Feb. 10, 2011 (bottom, photo taken by Cheng Min). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows railway passengers queuing up in front of a make-shift ticket office adapted from train compartments during the Spring Festival travel season in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Jan. 20, 2003 (top, photo taken by Zhou Wenjie); and a passenger having his ticket scanned by a robot to get train information at the Hohhot East Railway Station during the Spring Festival travel season in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 22, 2019 (bottom, photo taken by Peng Yuan). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows train driver Zhang Xin working in a locomotive in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 5, 2004 (top, photo taken by Hou Shaohua); and bullet train driver Zhou Li working during a mission on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway in north China, Jan. 25, 2017 (bottom, photo taken by Yang Baosen). (Xinhua)
This combo photo shows migrant workers on a train during the Spring Festival travel season for a homeward journey from Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong Province to southwest China's Chongqing Municipality in January of 2000 (top, photo taken by Zhuang Jin); and passengers sitting aboard the bullet train G6102 which departs from the Guangzhou South Railway Station to Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, on Jan. 25, 2014 (bottom, photo taken by Ding Yong). (Xinhua)
