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Friday, December 27, 2013

258m people to take the train home for Spring Festival

Some 257.8 million passengers are expected to travel by rail during this year's Spring Festival travel season in China.

According to the China Railway Corporation, the passenger volume during this year's 40-day spring festival travel rush will be 7.9% higher than last year.

Travel for the Spring Festival is the largest annual human migration in the world in which billions of Chinese travel between their workplaces and their hometowns for the festival, which falls on Jan. 31 this year.

The peak travel period i s from January 16 to February 24 this year and an additional 337 trains have been laid on to meet demand, the corporation said.

Source: xinhua via want china times

from China Travel & Tourism News http://www.chinatraveltourismnews.com/

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