DURING the just-concluded Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Mr Wang, who lives in Shanghai, had to take extra days off work to visit his family in neighboring Jiangsu Province because train tickets were so difficult to buy.
“I tried all the online platforms to buy train tickets for the day before or first day of the three-day holiday, but to no avail,” he told Xinhua.
Data released by the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday showed some 629.56 million passenger trips were handled by the transportation sector during the holiday that ran from Sunday to Tuesday, of which 42.57 million were made by railway.
Boasting the world’s largest high-speed railway (HSR) network, China is seeing more travellers opting for HSR as their first choice to get around the vast country and navigate its challenging geography from mountains to deserts.
According to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., Chinese railways handled a record 887 million passenger trips during this year’s summer travel rush from July to August,
up 6.7 per cent from a year earlier. The summer school break usually sees many Chinese parents taking their children on vacation.
Ms Liang, from Zhuhai in southern Guangdong Province, said she was relieved that her summer trip, with two young children to mountainous Guizhou Province in the southwest, was smoother than she had expected thanks to high-speed trains.
— Xinhua
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