forecast to handle about 83 million passenger trips during the five-day
travel surge around the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the national
railway operator said on Thursday.
The travel rush period runs
from Thursday to Monday, with Saturday expected to be the peak day at
roughly 19 million trips, according to China State Railway Group Co.,
Ltd.
As of 8 a.m. Thursday, over 40 million train tickets for the
holiday period had been sold on China’s railway ticketing platform
12306.
To accommodate this travel surge, the railway operator has
rolled out a peak-hour schedule, with around 13,000 passenger trains
running daily on average.
Overnight high-speed trains will
operate on major high-speed rail routes such as the Beijing-Shanghai,
Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Harbin lines.
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, falls on Saturday this year.
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