Guangzhou Railway Station, a major railway hub in south China, has handled a record 4.36 million passengers during the 62-day summer period, a peak traveling period that will end Tuesday, railway officials said Monday.

The booming economy has turned Guangdong Province into the destination of millions of migrant workers over the past two decades, making the railway station in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, one of the busiest in the country.

The number was 18.3 percent higher than last year and railway officials attributed the increase to the sharp rise in the number of children who visited their migrant parents in the province, mass travelers on summer holiday and college students who left andreturned to schools during the summer break.

According to the station's ticket office, an average of 4,000 students bought tickets each day between Aug. 26 and 28. During the whole summer traveling period, the station saw 1,300 traveling groups leaving.

Source: Xinhua