Train tickets for April 4 - the first day of the three-day Qingming holidays - were sold out on Thursday, with searches for popular destinations surging by more than 600 percent on a weekly basis.
Following the bustling travel seen during the Spring Festival holidays, experts expect the momentum to be sustained over the upcoming holidays with a small travel peak, underscoring China's continued economic revival and consumption recovery.
The Qingming Festival, which is also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, will fall on April 4 this year, with the holidays lasting until April 6.
As of 10 am on Thursday, train tickets for popular routes such as Beijing-Xi'an, Beijing-Shenyang and Nanjing-Hangzhou were among those that had been sold out, according to data from online ticketing platform Tongcheng Travel.
