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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 1 (Xinhua) — China’s inter-regional tourist trips rose 10.8 percent year-on-year on Saturday, the first day of the nationwide holiday to mark the traditional Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, official data from the Ministry of Transport showed Sunday.
According to the agency, more than 230.97 million interregional trips were made on Saturday.
The largest share of transportation was accounted for by automobile transport, which made 209.99 million passenger trips, which is 11.3 percent more in a year-on-year comparison.
Passenger traffic on rail transport amounted to almost 18.12 million person-times, which is 5 percent more year-on-year, while on water transport it amounted to 959 thousand person-times, increasing by 21.3 percent year-on-year.
Airlines handled 1.911 million passenger flights, the same as last year.
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, it falls on May 31, and the national holiday for the festival runs from May 31 to June 2. –0–