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192M rail trips during Spring Festival

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-19 15:13

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BEIJING -- About 192 million rail trips will be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel period that started on January 11 and ends Thursday, up 10.6 percent year-on-year, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said.

As of 6 pm Wednesday, 187 million railway tickets had been sold. And the busiest day was February 14, when the railways carried 5.929 million passengers, said Wang Yongping, the spokesman.

At a press conference on January 10, Wang had estimated that 188 million people would take trains during the 40-day period, an increase of 8 percent over the same period of 2008.