May Day crowds take land, air and sea transport for tourism boom

China's transport network is expected to have handled 270 million passenger trips during the five-day May Day holiday as it concludes on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport said.

From April 29 to Wednesday, a total of 270.19 million passenger trips were expected to be made via railways, roads, waterways and civil aviation, with a daily average of 54.04 million trips, an increase of 162.9 percent over the same period in 2022.

Among them, 90.81 million passenger trips were expected to be made by railway, an average of 18.18 million per day and more than four times the figure from the same period in 2022.

Highways were expected to facilitate 163.09 million passenger trips, an average of 32.62 million per day and an increase of 99.1 percent over the same period last year.

Waterways were expected to carry 6.8 million passenger trips, an average of 1.36 million per day and an increase of 114.2 percent over the same period last year.

Civil aviation, meanwhile, was responsible for 9.42 million passenger trips, an average of 1.88 million per day and more than five times that of last year.