Passenger numbers increases significantly in Guangdong province after the Spring Festival holiday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Migrant workers, tourists and family visits, especially from neighboring Hunan province and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, as well as inter-city flows within Guangdong province, have remained at a high level, the railway said.

To cope with the increase in passengers, local railway authorities planned to add 147 more passenger trains on Wednesday, mostly from Yueyang and Changsha, Hunan, from Zhanjiang, Chaozhou and Shantou in Guangdong, as well as Shenzhen and Guangzhou.