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China’s transportation sectors handle 216 million passengers in one day

  • 17 Sep 2024
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Some 215.92 million passenger trips were handled by China’s transportation sectors on Sunday, the first day of the three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, up 37.9 per cent year on year, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Of the total, China recorded 17.09 million passenger trips by railway, 544,100 by water, and 1.84 million by air, data from the Ministry of Transport showed.

Highway traffic took the lion’s share, with 196.45 million passenger trips.

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on 17th September this year.

 

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