China expects a cross-border travel surge during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday
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China’s National Immigration Administration (NIA) projected on Tuesday an 11.7 percent year-on-year increase in border entries and exits during the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival break, with a daily average of 2.2 million crossings nationwide.
The peak daily passenger throughput is expected to reach 2.35 million trips, according to NIA figures.
The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, it is celebrated on June 19, and the holiday runs from June 19 to 21.
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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.…
