国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China

China braces for world's biggest travel rush around Spring Festival

3 billion trips expected over the course of 40 days for upcoming family holiday

By WANG KEJU | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2019-12-26 00:00
Share
Share - WeChat

China's Spring Festival travel rush-the world's biggest annual human migration-will soon kick off and is set to be bigger than ever, with about 3 billion trips expected to be made, according to the country's top economic planner.

Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, will fall on Jan 25, the earliest in the last eight years.

The 40-day travel rush, known as chunyun, will begin on Jan 10 and last until Feb 18.

Lian Weiliang, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a news conference on Wednesday that the number of road trips during the travel rush is projected to reach 2.43 billion, down 1.2 percent from last year, while boat trips are likely to top 45 million, surging 9.6 percent.

"About 790,000 buses and 19,000 boats will be put into operation to meet passengers' rising travel demand," he said, adding that the removal of expressway toll booths at provincial borders and the popularization of electronic toll collection devices will relieve traffic congestion on expressways during the travel rush.

The Ministry of Transport said China had more than 181 million electronic toll collection users as of Dec 4, accounting for 80 percent of registered automobiles.

Liu Xiaoming, vice-minister of transport, said China is expected to have 200 million private cars by the end of this year, and the country's expressways will operate toll-free during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday. They will, as a result, face mounting traffic pressure.

The promotion of automatic payment services nationwide will improve the efficiency of road transport during the travel rush by greatly reducing travel time and logistics costs for drivers, he added.

The Ministry of Public Security will strengthen checks for unsafe vehicles and unqualified drivers to ensure road safety, focusing on overloading, fatigue, drunken driving and drivers operating vehicles for which they are not licensed.

High-speed trains and airplanes have accounted for an increasing proportion of chunyun travel in recent years, with train trips predicted to hit 440 million during next year's travel rush, up 8 percent year-on-year. About 79 million plane trips will be made, a rise of 8.4 percent over this year, according to the commission.

Lian said the percentage of long-distance trips during the travel rush has gradually decreased in recent years thanks to integrated urban-rural development.

"During last year's travel rush, the average travel distance was only 394.4 kilometers, and nearly 80 percent of the homecoming passengers traveled less than 500 km," he said.

Spring Festival is China's most important family holiday, with hundreds of millions of people heading to their hometowns to meet up with relatives and old friends, putting huge stress on the transport system.

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1994 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
永春县| 滦南县| 望谟县| 巴青县| 额济纳旗| 万安县| 汝州市| 泰安市| 上虞市| 开鲁县| 肃南| 周至县| 大新县| 临颍县| 吴江市| 库车县| 广汉市| 遂平县| 敖汉旗| 弥勒县| 孟津县| 定兴县| 丁青县| 青田县| 志丹县| 郸城县| 伊通| 南召县| 安新县| 五指山市| 青浦区| 工布江达县| 温宿县| 信阳市| 汉阴县| 集安市| 梅州市| 察哈| 安义县| 昌都县| 吕梁市|