Luo Hengdi arrived home at 3 am on Tuesday after an epic journey that typified the annual of millions of Chinese migrant laborers in seeing loved ones over Spring Festival.

The 2,000-km trip from Nanjing in East China's Jiangsu province to his hometown in southwestern Sichuan province took exactly 36 hours.

In 2003, Luo, now 51, left his life in the countryside to further his livelihood and that of his family back home by working as a carpenter in the city. Since then, he has labored in temporary jobs at construction sites in Wuhu, a small city in the eastern province of Anhui.