{"id":17029,"date":"2025-04-04T05:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17029"},"modified":"2025-04-04T05:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T05:20:57","slug":"chinese-railways-expect-travel-rush-during-qingming-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17029","title":{"rendered":"Chinese railways expect travel rush during Qingming holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250403\/af01e54601d248f2b77323e36b3575fe\/20250403af01e54601d248f2b77323e36b3575fe_XxjwshE007086_20250403_CBMFN0A001.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A train runs on the Nyingchi section of Lhasa-Nyingchi railway in southwest China&#8217;s Xizang Autonomous Region, April 1, 2025. (Xinhua\/Tenzin Nyida)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s railways are gearing up for an expected surge in travel during the upcoming three-day Qingming Festival holiday, which starts on Friday this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China Railway, the country&#8217;s railway operator, said the travel rush would actually span five days, as it started on Thursday. The operator expects 84.5 million passenger trips to be made in total from April 3 to 7, averaging 16.9 million trips daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The travel peak during the holiday will be on Friday, it forecasted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, falls on April 4 this year. It is a traditional Chinese festival for people to pay tribute to the dead and worship their ancestors. The holiday also provides a short break for Chinese citizens as they engage in outdoor activities and sightseeing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250403\/af01e54601d248f2b77323e36b3575fe\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250403\/af01e54601d248f2b77323e36b3575fe\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s railways are gearing up for an expected surge in travel during the upcoming three-day Qingming Festival holiday, which starts on Friday this year. China Railway, the country&#8217;s railway operator, said the travel rush would actually span five days, as it started on Thursday. The operator expects 84.5 million passenger trips to be made in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,15474,3790,105,4329,15471,1430,15473,2286,13185,15472],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china","tag-chinese-railways-expect-travel-rush-during-qingming-holiday","tag-festivals","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-holidays","tag-qing-ming-jie","tag-railway","tag-rush-on-travellers","tag-traditions","tag-traveling","tag-visit-to-ancestors-graves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17031,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions\/17031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}