China expects 9.5 pct rise in daily cross-border passenger flow during Spring Festival holiday
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China is anticipating an average of 1.85 million inbound and outbound passenger trips each day during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on Friday.
The figure represents a 9.5 percent increase in daily cross-border passenger throughput compared with last year’s Spring Festival holiday.
This year’s Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, falls on Jan. 29, with eight public holiday days from Jan. 28 to Feb. 4. The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China and an occasion for family reunions and celebrations.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
