(CRI) Railways across China are expected to transport around 7.7 million travelers today, the last day of the travel peak before the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 8.
The passenger flow on Sunday is expected to drop, with most passengers making only short journeys on the eve of Chinese Lunar New Year.
Affected by the earthquake in Taiwan, tremors have been felt from Hangzhou in eastern China to Shenzhen in the south.
Local railway departments launched contingency plans, inspecting track for potential damage, and some trains traveling on the affected sections suffered delays of about an hour.
Most of those trains are now back to running on their normal schedules.
Li Youming is the vice director of the Fuzhou Railway Station.
"To ensure the safe running of the trains, we closed part of the Hangzhou-Shenzhen line to do an examination of the track. This caused temporary delays for the trains running on that part of the line."
Road traffic in the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong was not affected by the earthquake.
For civil aviation, the passenger flow has been easing ahead of the holiday. Beijing Capital International Airport is expected to transport nearly 260,000 travelers on Saturday.
Affected by heavy fog and snow, some flights in Urumqi, in the northwest, are delayed, as are flights in the cities of Kunming and Guiyang in the southwest.
Source: CRI
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