October 8, 2025

China's eight-day holiday week, which this year featured the unique alignment of Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holidays, witnessed robust travel numbers and consumption scenes as hundreds of millions of Chinese hit the road.

The long holiday, which started on October 1 and ends on Wednesday, saw Chinese people, whether traveling or staying home, engaging in a wide range of activities, contributing to the country's consumption upgrade and injecting fresh growth momentum into high-quality development, underlining the strong resilience and vitality of the world's second-largest economy, analysts noted.

Unprecedented people flows

China's cross-regional passenger flows reached approximately 2.43 billion during the eight-day holiday, the People's Daily reported on Wednesday, citing data from the Ministry of Transport. Average daily passenger flows reached 304 million, rising by 6.2 percent year-on-year.

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