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Migrant workers hurry home for family reunion at Spring Festival

（Xinhua）  09:00, January 30, 2013  

Liu Chuantao (2nd R, Back) poses for a family photo after arriving at home in Fuyang of east China's Anhui Province, Jan. 29 , 2013. Liu Chuantao, a 32-year-old migrant worker, runs a business of home decorations in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. His wife, Chen Yan, works for a Hangzhou based factory. The couple brought their eight-year-old daughter Liu Pingping to Hangzhou while leaving their elder son Liu Zhen attending a school in their hometown in Fuyang. As the Spring Festival draws near, Liu Chuantao took the L8600 train from Hangzhou to Fuyang in the evening of Jan. 28, 2013, together with his wife and daughter. After more than 12 hours' travel on trains and buses, the family finally got reunited on Jan. 29, 2013 after a year's separation. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

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（Editor：黄瑾、陈丽丹）

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