April 30, 2023

A tourist who arrived at Sanxingdui Museum in Southwest China's Sichuan Province at 8 am, ahead of the opening, queued for more than one hour to enter, which was an vivid miniature of the first day of the May Day holidays on social media platform Xiaohongshu.

Such travel mania was seen nationwide on Saturday, the first day of the five-day holidays. Air, sea and land passenger traffic surged 151.8 percent year-on-year on Saturday, latest statistics revealed. 

A total of 19.661 million railway passenger trips were made on Saturday with 12,064 passenger trains operating, which made a new high in terms of single-day passenger traffic, according to China Railway on Sunday. The railway operator estimated that 18 million passenger trips will be made on Sunday, with 11,217 trains scheduled to run.

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