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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) — China’s railway passenger traffic totaled 112 million from April 29 to May 4, up 10.5 percent from a year earlier, state-owned China Railways Corp. (CRC) said.
According to the company, the figure was 19.79 million person-times on May 4, and was expected to rise to 21.1 million person-times on May 5, the penultimate day of intensive operation due to the May Day holiday. The top three cities by number of outgoing passengers were Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu, and by number of arriving passengers were Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The routes linking the capital with Shanghai, Shenyang, Hohhot and Taiyuan, as well as the Xi’an-Chengdu, Nanning-Guangzhou and Wuhan-Shanghai railways were recognized as the busiest.
Residents of China had a holiday from May 1 to 5 in connection with International Workers’ Day. Given the surge in passenger traffic during this period, the KZhD switched to intensive operation for 8 days from April 29. Measures were developed to respond to the sharp increase in passenger traffic, including the allocation of additional trains on routes, increased efficiency of inspection, and other measures. -0-