China sees travel surge during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday
Updated: September 18, 2024 18:52Xinhua
An aerial drone photo shows tourists visiting the Slender West Lake scenic spot in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. 17, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
BEIJING, Sept. 18 -- Some 629.56 million passenger trips were handled by China's transportation sectors during the three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, up 31.1 percent year on year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed on Wednesday.
Of the total, China recorded 42.57 million passenger trips by railway, 1.98 million by water, and 5.07 million by air.
Road traffic took the lion's share, with 579.94 million passenger trips.
The Mid-Autumn Festival fell on Sept. 17 this year.
In this drone photo, tourists visit a night market at Taixing City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. 15, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on Sept. 17, 2024 shows tourists visiting the Shenxianju scenery spot in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. [Photo/Xinhua]
People visit the Longmen Grottoes scenic spot in Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, Sept. 16, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
Tourists ride camels at the Mingshashan and Crescent Lake, an oasis scenic spot in the Gobi Desert, in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 16, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
People dressed in traditional Chinese costumes attend a parade in Xuan'en County, central China's Hubei Province, Sept. 16, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
Actors perform Yangge, a traditional folk dance, for tourists at Pingshan County, Shijiazhuang City, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 17, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
Tourists visit the Zhengding ancient city in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 17, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
