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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) — About 80.5 million passenger train trips are expected to be made during China’s five-day Dragon Boat Festival tourism boom, state-owned China Railway Corp. said Friday.
The ancient Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Jie or Double Fifth Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, the festival is celebrated on Saturday, May 31.
The special period for rail transport began on Friday, and the peak of passenger transport will be on Saturday, on which day the passenger flow on the country’s railways will reach 18.3 million person-times, KZhD reported.
According to China’s railway ticket booking platform 12306, popular destinations during the holiday this year include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi’an, Nanjing, Changsha and Zhengzhou.
The platform’s data also shows that Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Jinan, Beijing-Taiyuan, Beijing-Nanjing and Shenzhen-Xianggang routes are the most popular these days.
To meet increased travel demands, China Railways has increased capacity and also improved service quality to provide a better travel experience for passengers. -0-