Rough ride home for CNY

TO GO WITH STORY BY TOM HANCOCK This picture taken on January 25, 2014 shows a group of Chinese travellers resting with their motorcycles at a pitstop in Wuzhou, Guangxi province, as thousands are shunning public transport to head home on the highways during the world's largest migration. China's 245 million migrant workers -- twice the entire population of Japan -- generally have to travel home to their families on jam-packed trains or buses for the Lunar New Year, but this year more than 600,000 are expected to ride home on their own motorcycles, according to state-run media, making gruelling journeys of several hundred kilometres for the country's biggest festival.. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

WUZHOU: The thrum of motorcycles echoes over a Chinese mountain road, where hundreds of thousands are shunning public transport to take the highway home during the world’s largest annual human migration.

China’s 245 million migrant workers – twice the entire population of Japan – generally have to travel on jam-packed trains or buses to get to their hometown to see their families for the Lunar New Year.