China sees travel rush, tourism boom as 5-day Labor Day holiday starts
2023-04-30 10:44:18 source：CGTN
April 30, 2023
As Chinese holiday-makers welcome the first long holiday after the seven-day-long Spring Festival holiday since January, the country has seen a travel rush and a boom in tourism.
The China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. estimated that the number of passenger trips handled by the country's railways would reach 19.5 million on Saturday, the first day of the five-day-long May Day holiday, which is expected to be a new high in terms of single-day passenger traffic.
According to earlier data, about 120 million domestic trips were expected to be made by Chinese railway passengers from April 27 to May 4 around the May Day holiday.
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