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People queue up to check in at the waiting hall of Xiamen Railway Station in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Feb. 14, 2026. (Photo by Zeng Demeng\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s 2026 Spring Festival travel rush had passed its halfway point as of Saturday, with inter-regional passenger trips reaching 5.08 billion in the first 20 days, the Ministry of Transport said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of this total, road trips accounted for 4.76 billion, while railways handled 258 million trips. Waterways and civil aviation recorded 19.99 million and 47.52 million passenger trips, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual travel surge, known as chunyun and often described as the world’s largest human migration, is expected to generate a record 9.5 billion inter-regional passenger trips during the 40-day period running from Feb. 2 to March 13 this year, according to previous estimates. \u25a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passengers are pictured at a platform of Harbin Railway Station in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Yuan Yong\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passengers board a train at Harbin Railway Station in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Yuan Yong\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passengers check in at the waiting hall of Huaibei Railway Station in Huaibei, east China’s Anhui Province, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Wan Shanchao\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A drone photo taken on Feb. 22, 2026 shows vehicles on the Runyang Bridge, Yangzhou City, east China’s Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Meng Delong\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passengers are pictured at a platform of Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Feb. 19, 2026. (Photo by Su Yang\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People queue up to check in at the waiting hall of Xiamen Railway Station in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Feb. 14, 2026. (Photo by Zeng Demeng\/Xinhua) BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s 2026 Spring Festival travel rush had passed its halfway point as of Saturday, with inter-regional passenger trips reaching 5.08 billion in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2307,232,27240,27241,26513,26987,11428,9128,27242],"class_list":["post-29655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-china-3","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-end-of-festival","tag-end-of-holidays","tag-passenger-load","tag-rush-of-travelers","tag-spring-festival-3","tag-tourists-2","tag-travelers-return-to-work","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655","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=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}