China sees 872 million rail passenger trips in the summer travel rush
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
China has the largest Railway network and is one of the most reliable and cost-effective modes of transportation.
China’s railways had handled 872 million passenger trips, as of Friday, during this year’s summer travel rush, up 6.2 percent from one year earlier, data showed on Saturday.
The average daily number of railway passenger trips reached 14.29 million between July 1 and Aug. 30, according to data released by the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., the country’s railway operator.
The demand for student travel during the summer vacation, tourism and family visits was strong, keeping railway passenger flow at a high level, according to the company.
This year, the summer travel rush lasts from July 1 to Aug. 31.
According to separate data from the Ministry of Transport, a total of 37.99 billion inter-regional trips were made in China during the first seven months of the year, an increase of 6.6 percent from one year earlier.
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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.…
