Ya Xi just returned to Shanghai on a red-eye flight after her Golden Week trip to Southeast Asia. “I can stay up all night for a cheaper ticket,” she told DW. She was among the 31.19 million passengers who traveled during the 13-day holiday period that followed the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 25 and China’s National…
New energy vehicles (NEVs) on China’s expressways consumed an average of 23 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a day during the Oct. 1-7 National Day holiday, up 51.42 percent year on year, official data showed Wednesday. The National Energy Administration based its analysis on the 62,700 expressway charging facilities connected to its national monitoring platform. Over…
Cross-border travel soared between Hong Kong and Shenzhen City of south China’s Guangdong Province during the week-long National Day holiday which ended Wednesday, driven by visitors seeking high-end dining, blockbuster movies, and cultural events. Shenzhen’s land border crossings recorded a peak daily volume of nearly one million two-way trips over the break. From family visits…
Cross-regional passenger trips across China exceeded 290 million on Wednesday, the last day of the National Day holiday, according to the Ministry of Transport. To be specific, railways handled 24.15 million passenger trips; road passenger volume topped 260 million; and waterway and civil aviation passenger volume totaled 980,000 and 2.51 million, respectively. The week-long holiday…
The waiting hall at Longyan Station in Fujian Province is crowded with passengers on Oct. 6, near the end of China’s National Day holiday. CMG View original image More than 2.1 billion passenger trips were made nationwide during China’s National Day holiday. On the final day of the holiday, more than 24 million passengers were…
Tourists at the Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan province on Wednesday. The airport optimized services to ensure smoother travel as the National Day holiday came to an end. GAO WEI/FOR CHINA DAILY China stepped up transport services on Wednesday as the National Day holiday drew to a close, with the railways expecting 24.15 million…
Beijing, Oct. 7 (Xinhua/GNA) – Five days into China’s week-long National Day holiday, millions are still immersed in the sights, sounds and flavors of the season — traveling, dining, exploring and enjoying the break. Yet this year, the scenes are subtly different. Travelers have ventured farther as the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday fell just three days…
Few cities can satisfy an appetite with the range and immediacy of Hong Kong. Within a city block, you can go from old-school cha chaan tengs(diners) to experimental fine dining, no-frills noodle shops and bars reinventing the cocktail scene. For food journalist and content creator Gloria Chung, it’s this diversity and the city’s “dynamic pace…
China’s tourism sector has shown great vibrancy during the seven-day National Day holiday ending Wednesday, with both abundant supply and high demand, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. During the week-long holiday, demand for medium- and long-distance travel has been fully unleashed, with long-haul trips becoming a favored option, the ministry said. Key…
China recorded more than 2.1 billion cross-regional passenger trips during this year’s National Day holiday, as improvements in the country’s integrated transport network helped meet strong travel demand and inject fresh vitality into the economy. China’s Ministry of Transport said on Wednesday that the total number of cross-regional passenger trips during the holiday period from…