US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
    China / Society

    National Day travelers ready for rush

    By LUO WANGSHU (China Daily) Updated: 2016-09-28 15:02

    With the weeklong National Day holiday just around the corner, massive domestic migration will soon begin, causing heavy traffic jams, packed trains and long lines at airports.

    Travel records are expected to be broken again this vacation period as increasingly prosperous, holiday-happy Chinese travelers pack tourism sites at home and abroad.

    More than 660 million trips will be made by road and water during the upcoming holiday, a slight increase over the same period last year, Xu Chengguang, spokesman of the Ministry of Transport, said Wednesday. Xu’s agency regulates those methods of travel.

    China’s fast-growing railway network is expected to log 110 million train trips, up by 11.3 percent year-on-year, China Railway Corp estimated on Wednesday. The peak of the railway rush will be Oct 1, when 14.2 million train trips are expected.

    Air travel regulators were mum, but expect the skies to be just as busy.

    While vacations are wonderful, hundreds of millions of people leaving for vacation at the same time can be stressful.

    On Sept 30, evening rush hour will start an average of two and a half hours early in Chinese cities, according to a report by Didi Chuxing, China’s biggest car-on-demand service. The average time to get to railway stations and airports in major cities will increase by more than 20 percent, the report said.

    The worst places for highway travelers to be are highways in Guangzhou and Sichuan provinces and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, which are predicted to have the most crowded roads, according to a report from the Baidu search engine company.

    Baidu data predict the most crowded times to travel will be the first and last two days of the holiday.

    "Analysis of previous data shows that 8 am on Oct 1 and 4 pm on Oct 7 may be the peaks of the holiday rush by road,” said Li Zhitang, head of Baidu Map.

    The National Day holiday, from Oct 1 to Oct 7, is one of China’s two Golden Week holiday periods, the other being Spring Festival, which usually falls in January or February.

    While the huge migration in the spring is mainly caused by traditional family reunions, the autumn trips are increasingly motivated by tourism.

    "Chinese people were celebrating holidays at home before, but now travel has gradually become a major way to celebrate holidays,” said Wang Xiaosong, CEO of Lvmama.com, a major online travel booking service.

    He estimated that the number of China’s tourists during this Golden Week will again reach a record.

    For some, however, the vacation period is not so golden for travel.

    "I just want to stay at home and take a good rest. We rarely have a chance to enjoy such a long holiday and I don’t want to waste it on seeing ‘people mountain, people sea’,” said Xu Jiayu, a white-collar worker in Beijing, using a popular Chinese expression for crowds.

    Netizens also made jokes online about tourists rushing to popular sightseeing spots.

    "Instead of seeing the beautiful Great Wall, you can see only heels and heads,” one commenter said on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social media service.

    Highlights
    Hot Topics

    ...
    国产网红主播无码精品 | 亚洲国产精品无码久久| 精品久久久无码中文字幕天天 | 亚洲第一极品精品无码久久| 最近免费字幕中文大全视频| 精品无码国产污污污免费网站国产| 久久久无码精品亚洲日韩京东传媒| 被夫の上司に犯中文字幕| 国产AV一区二区三区无码野战 | 一本加勒比hezyo无码专区 | 精品多人p群无码| 今天免费中文字幕视频| 最好的中文字幕视频2019| 久久精品无码一区二区三区 | 无码高清不卡| 本免费AV无码专区一区| 亚洲AV日韩AV永久无码下载| 国产AV无码专区亚洲AWWW| 亚洲日韩在线中文字幕第一页| 欧美精品中文字幕亚洲专区| 中文字幕无码一区二区免费| 亚洲精品无码日韩国产不卡?V| 国产∨亚洲V天堂无码久久久| 久久久久成人精品无码中文字幕| 亚洲无码在线播放| 亚洲日韩中文无码久久| 国模无码人体一区二区| 国产成年无码AV片在线韩国| 13小箩利洗澡无码视频网站免费| 国产成人无码免费看视频软件| 欧美中文字幕无线码视频| 亚洲国产精品狼友中文久久久| 亚洲日韩欧美国产中文| 无码播放一区二区三区| 中文字幕有码无码AV| 中文字幕av无码一区二区三区电影| 亚洲成a人无码av波多野按摩| 日韩少妇无码一区二区三区 | 人妻无码中文字幕免费视频蜜桃| 久久久久综合中文字幕| 中文字幕在线观看国产|