Stations and airports in China know the main peak of travelers on Saturday before the Lunar New Year, millions of people returning to spending family festivals for an annual migration that promises to be record.
The new Chinese year, that of the snake, will start on Wednesday. The Chinese benefit from eight consecutive holidays, the opportunity to eat large meals, attend traditional shows or to burst firecrackers and fireworks.
At Beijing-Ouest station, thousands of parkas travelers, many of which wore surgical masks to avoid contamination in full trains, pulled their suitcases on Saturday before boarding the cars, AFP noted .
During the traditional period of 40 days which extends before, during and after the holidays, some 9 billion interpromainic journeys, all transports combined, should be carried out, according to the official news agency China Nouvelle.
The number of train and plane trips should “Reach record levels” During the migration of this year, she said.
The Ministry of Transport said he was expecting during this period at 510 million train journeys and 90 million by plane.
According to the national railway company, which added thousands of trains to face the demand, this Saturday constitutes “The main peak” in the stations before the holidays.
She says she used the megadonts (“big data”) from sales and tickets to wait from tickets to provide and regulate the offer.
It is common for the Chinese to go to study and work in a different province of theirs, due to more interesting opportunities, hence the important migration of population around the New Year.
Many factories have already temporarily closed for the holidays, workers returning home traditionally earlier than the rest of the population.
If the train journeys were still ten years ago of the epic, sometimes over several days, the rapid development of high -speed, effective and comfortable trains, now greatly simplifies travel.
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