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...Biao stands in front of the Guangzhou train station with an umbrella in his hand, staring into the crush of people ahead of him. The 27-year-old has spent the past year hard at work in a cosmetics factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get back home for the holidays. The trip to his hometown outside the central city of Suzhou takes more than 20 hours - if he can board. Around him, hundreds of people push towards an opening in the barrier surrounding the station. A police officer standing behind a fence shouts...
...While Guangzhou avoided the worst of the weather, it is the site of some of the most vivid scenes of adversity. The city, capital of the country's most prosperous province, is a major transit hub through which millions of migrants would have to pass on their homeward journey. Road and rail outages have left as many as half a million stranded here. The main rail link between Guangzhou and Beijing was disabled when heavy snow and ice in Hunan province knocked out power lines last weekend, leaving at least 136 trains stranded, according to Xinhua. Several highways north...
...Outside, Wan Chunbo, a 23-year-old driver for a company in Guangzhou, watches as a neon sign flashes the locations of ticket refund centers. "I want to go home, but I think it will be tough," he says, shivering and nodding at the crowds nearby. "Look at all those people." He doubts his chances of making it home to Jiangxi province, an eight-hour trip. "Spring Festival is almost here so everybody wants to go home and be with their families," Wan says. "My heart will be a little pained if I can't make it. I've worked...
...Gmail account. "All the lack of democracy in China can be traced to the lack of press freedom," he told me earnestly last year as we sat in a tiny room where he had cadged floor space for the night from a fellow blogger in the southern city of Guangzhou. "That's why I am trying to do journalism outside the system...
...have become increasingly evident to customers. China's airports are infamous for flight delays and cancellations. The CAAC reports an 80% on-time-arrival rate countrywide, but frequent fliers traveling through clogged metropolitan airports beg to differ. On Nov. 20, for example, more than 50 flights to and from Guangzhou and Shanghai were delayed, keeping more than 6,000 passengers waiting as long as 10 hours for takeoff. Such delays are often caused by conflicts with the country's military. The People's Liberation Army confines commercial aircraft to narrow corridors of airspace, and carriers must hold or cancel flights...