FOUR “Felicity Trains,” offering free seats to over 3,000 passengers, departed from Guangdong Province on Wednesday, including two trains setting out from Shenzhen. These trains were heading to Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported Thursday.

    One of the trains, K9064, departed from Shenzhen West Railway Station at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, carrying 108 needy migrant workers and students to their hometown. After running for 19 hours, the train arrived in Jishou, Hunan Province, at 6 a.m. Thursday.

    The free train tickets offered to these passengers were sponsored by Guangdong’s human resources and social security department and some enterprises.

    Each passenger was given Spring Festival couplets and red envelopes on the train, as well as small gifts donated by people from all walks of life in Shenzhen.

    A passenger, Ye Jianguo, who has worked in Shenzhen for nearly 30 years, said that he was delighted to take the “Felicity Train.” He has worked as a construction worker and a material keeper to earn money for his three children and parents in his hometown, and sometimes he would stay in Shenzhen during the Spring Festival to save money.

    Another train, G1010, heading to Wuhan, Hubei Province, departed from Shenzhen North Railway Station on Wednesday morning. The train, which was carrying over 600 makers from Guangdong, was the first to be especially designated for makers by Guangzhou Railway Group during the Spring Festival travel rush.

    These train tickets were sponsored by the Guangdong Youth League committee, Tencent, Nanfang Media Group and other enterprises. Maker exhibitions were hosted on the train and in Shenzhen North Railway Station.

    Li, a staffer from a Shenzhen-based robot manufacturing company, said that tickets for high-speed trains to her hometown in Hunan Province were highly sought-after, and she was too busy to order a ticket. She didn’t expect that a special train for makers would take her home, and she said that six other people at her company were offered the tickets as well. (Zhang Yang)