China’s highway traffic on the first day of the eight-day Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays might set a new record, Wang Xiuchun, an official from the Ministry of Transport, said on Thursday, as a sign of robust recovery in travel during the upcoming “golden week.”
Wang said that the daily highway traffic volume will surge by 40 percent compared with the same period in 2022. September 29, the first day of the holidays, is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, so a travel peak is expected due to both tourism and family visits.
Central cities and other major tourist destinations, including the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangzte River Delta, will see the heaviest traffic. China Railway Shanghai Group (CRSG) announced that passenger trips in the Yangtze River Delta region will reach 370 million during the travel peak that will last for 12 days, the CRSG said on Thursday.
The representative from CRSG said that the travel peak will start on September 27 and end on October 8, and the number of passenger trips on October 1 might set a new record of 3.7 million.
