China travellers in sanitary stew

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A city in southern China has reported a clamour for incontinence pads as locals prepare to make long train journeys home for the Lunar New Year.

Supermarkets in Foshan, Guangdong province, have reported a 50% increase in sales of the pads, the China Daily quoted a local paper as saying.

Millions of Chinese travel home to visit families for the New Year.

Trains become so packed that travellers are often unable to reach the toilet, while others stand in the cubicles.

"In this period, a common train has to transit 2,000 passengers, with only around 1,000 seating tickets," said Zhang Dazhi, an officer of Guangzhou Railway Group in Guangdong.

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