Holiday Travelers Across China on Their Way Back
Holiday travelers across China on their way back
SHANGHAI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — More and more people who had hurried home for family reunion to observe the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, began to return to their work places as the week-long holiday is drawing to the end.
According to the Shanghai railway bureau, it will probably sell out 15.3 million tickets for return journeys between Feb. 3 and 22, when the current 40-day hot transport season concludes. The figure will be 389,000 tickets, or 2.6 percent, more than the same period of last year.
Most of the travelers to be returned to work places will be migrant workers, the bureau said.
Meanwhile, civil aviation services in Shanghai will see a peak of return passengers Saturday.
On Friday, travelers also thronged to three major railway stations, namely Hefei, Fuyang and Bengbu, in east China’s Anhui Province. Local railway authorities estimated the three stations will see off more than 70,000 passengers Friday.
In Hefei, more passengers took trains destined to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou; and in Fuyang, which is one of the four major sources of migrant workers in China, sent out nearly 50,000 passengers on Friday, much higher than the 37,000 on Thursday.
Local railway authorities said Fuyang would sell out a total of 1.16 million tickets in the coming 25 days, a year-on-year growth of more than 60,000.
The Nanchang railway bureau in the capital city of east China’s Jiangxi Province, on Friday sent out an estimated number of 300,000 passengers and added 70 temporary passenger trains to its train fleet.
As a major destination for returned migrant workers, Guangzhou, capital city of the booming Guangdong Province in south China, saw approximately 100,000 passenger arrivals at its railway station Friday. Most of them were migrant workers returning from Henan, Sichuan and Hunan provinces.
On Thursday, the city’s Baiyun Airport recorded 650 arrivals and departures of aircrafts, involving 75,000 tickets. The same day also witnessed arrivals of more than 100,000 travelers aboard buses in Guangzhou.